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

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

2010-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman 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 I'm not in need of anyt

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 wrote: > Paul Hartman writes: > >> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Harry Putnam 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

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

2010-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul Hartman writes: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Harry Putnam 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

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 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 directly, so the L

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

2010-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller 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... It does not see my