Re: kickstart vs. USB keyboard

"James A. Laska" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.taroon
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Christopher,

Since syslinux and grub are prior to the linux kernel running, they rely
on the the BIOS to access the keyboard.  If the BIOS does not understand
usb keyboard/mouse devices, syslinux and grub will not either.  If the
particular machine supports USB devices in the BIOS, you might try
getting in the bios and enabling it. 

Thanks,
James Laska

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 06:38, Christopher McCrory wrote:
> Hello...
> 
> 	I was doing some taroon kickstart installs on some new Dell 1750s.  The
> Dells have very convenient video and USB connectors on the front of the
> servers.  (the older 2650s also have a PS/2).  The redhat installer does
> work with a USB keyboard once it starts.  But neither grub nor syslinux
> (to type text ks=floppy) recognize it.
> 
> Is this something that has an easy fix or works when booting from CD?
> 
> Is this an upstream maintainer issue?


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