On 12/04/15 09:42, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
The PCI USB card works 99% of the time, the 1% it does not is during
the grub boot up where I get to select the bios, OS or Kernel etc.
Wehn USB first arrived, BIOSes often did not support it, or would only
support it if enabled in the BIOS. Could it be your BIOS is that old
and the PCI USB card a distraction in that even if the on-board USB
still worked, the keyboard could not control the BIOS or grub?
grub-reboot(1) will let you select the OS to boot on the next reboot,
for one time only. That could get you into Windows without grub control
at boot time.
Cheers, Ralph.
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Hi Ralph
This PC has legacy USB support (bios is circa 2005) but I believe the
issue is simply that the PCI USB card is not initialised till after the
the grub selection screen has come and gone where the onboard USB would
be brought as part of the motherboard support (can't think of the name
of it) which is pre grub. At the end of the day it is not a big issue as
I can always plug in the PS2 keyboard I have for those odd times when I
need to play with grub at boot time (there is only a single OS on this PC).
So I am going to leave it there, I have many other things to do and this
one does not warrant the time to play with it at the moment, I have a
get out option if I need it so I will leave it.
Thanks for the input guys
Tim
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