USB Keyboard doesn't work

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 00:35:28 UTC 2011


On Sep 19, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote:

> On Monday 19 September 2011 20:20:18 Alisson wrote:
> 
>> if the machine doesn't have a PS2 port to use keyboard... and have only USB
>> port its impossible to use an keyboard on mountroot prompt
> 
> Hi Alisson, 
> 
> 	I dont know the complete ins and outs of this, but I think it has a lot 
> to do with the BIOS on your machine and/or how it is configured (IE: PS2 
> emulation).

	Many BIOS vendors label this as "legacy keyboard emulation", etc. You might want to play with the plug-n-play settings as well (but I doubt that that would help).
HTH,
-Garrett


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