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 keyboard yet. > > Once booted and login prompt is up (I boot to console mode) the > keyboard now is recognized. > > There was a time when the keyboard was recognized throughout, so > something changed in grub or I'm not sure what... but this happens > before the kernel is booted.
I'll refresh your memory: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/190909 There are unresolved posts in that thread - you haven't returned to the list and said "yeah, I tried this and the result was ____". Please post back when you have checked the BIOS settings for HID devices. Stroller.