Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Long standing problem of booting thu kvm switch

2010-12-18 Thread Stroller
On 17/12/2010, at 5:58pm, Harry Putnam wrote: ... ps - You were bragging about the abilities of you KVM switch in the past thread... I didn't see it mentioned what switch that is. Also you mentioned accessing your KVM with a web browser... can you enlarge a few details on that? Let me

[gentoo-user] Re: Long standing problem of booting thu kvm switch

2010-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 17/12/2010, at 1:41am, Harry Putnam wrote: Somewhere back down the road... mnths now, I lost the ability to talk to the boot screen from my KVM connected keyboard. What I mean is, when gentoo starts to boot and reaches the grub screen...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Long standing problem of booting thu kvm switch

2010-12-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: However since I can access the bios thru the KVM switch, shouldn't that mean I should be also able to access the grub prompt? I think that basically GRUB does not have USB HID drivers to know how to talk to your keyboard

[gentoo-user] Re: Long standing problem of booting thu kvm switch

2010-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: However since I can access the bios thru the KVM switch, shouldn't that mean I should be also able to access the grub prompt? I think that basically GRUB does not have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Long standing problem of booting thu kvm switch

2010-12-17 Thread Paul Hartman
Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: However since I can access the bios thru the KVM switch, shouldn't that mean I should be also able

[gentoo-user] Re: Long standing problem of booting thu kvm switch

2010-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: There have been patches to the legacy grub to add support for things like GPT so it still gets the job done for most people in most ordinary cases. Here's a page that lists the current features of grub2: http://grub.enbug.org/CurrentStatus