[Quoting order corrected] On Saturday, 6 June 2020 17:05:13 BST Jack wrote: > On 6/6/20 12:01 PM, jdm wrote: > > I have had to use the Gentoo Minimal Installation Cd to rescue my > > system due something going wrong with UEFI boot crazyness. Which is > > resolved now. > > > > What I have noticed is that you can use a mouse and copy/paste at the > > command prompt in what looks like framebuffer/tty session or whatever > > that is called before you get GUI desktop. > > > > Anyone know how this magic is done? It's well cool.
> sys-libs/gpm perhaps? I thought he was asking about the UEFI kernel-choice screen, long before Linux gets a sniff at the machine. I assume it's in the UEFI code in the ROM. -- Regards, Peter.
