A stuck key will act as a key press and drop you into the grub menu.
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:22 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > Today at Oscon I picked up a live DVD of Fedora 20. When I got home I > booted it on the laptop, and when it came up everything was working, > including the keyboard. Amazed, I shut it down and booted to my regular > Xubuntu 13.10 on the disk. It came up normally (not even to the Grub > menu as before) and I was able to enter my password and log in. So here > I am all fixed and I haven't even opened the case to clean the > keyboard, let alone install the new one that is on the way from > System76. > > One small correction to the above: the right shift key is not > working, nor is the left arrow key. I might discover more as I continue > to use the computer, but at the moment I am functional again. > > I still plan on taking the keyboard out and cleaning it, which will > probably solve the remaining issues. > > I have no explanation for why Xubuntu on the disk was always taking me > to the Grub menu when it normally never did, and did not do so tonight. > Nor can I explain the bizarre behavior of the Xubuntu 14.04 live DVD > that I was using when I couldn't get past the Grub menu to boot my > normal Xubuntu. But perhaps I should not look a gift horse in the > mouth. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
