Hi Dominik, "Dominik Epple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> using grub-pc 1.96 from debian testing, booting with grub works > fine. If one does not touch the keyboard. If I touch any key, the > following things happen: > > 1. The keytroke has the expected result, e.g. selecting the next boot > image, or going into the command editor when pressing 'e', etc. > 2. The count down for automatic booting stops 3. Further keystrokes do > not work 4. The combination of 2. and 3. means that the system will > not boot, and I need to reset the machine. > > Well... this is on a Mac Pro (early 2008) with its standard USB > keyboard. Grub is invoked after rEFIt has done the first stage of > booting. Grub is installed into the MBR of the linux partition. The > disk is partitioned like bootcamp does it (using a GPT Partition > Table, and mirroring the partion layout into the MBR partition (that > should be the protective MBR partition...)), with four partitions > (standard bootcamp partitioning includes three partitions). This is a known problem when working with the Mac. Actually, GRUB Legacy has the same problem. Here a hack is used by some distributions to work around this problem. So I assume a firmware update might fix this. I am not sure if I want this hack in GRUB 2, as it involved busy waiting... -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
