[Techtalk] LILO Not Taking Keyboard Input?

[James]

On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Kai MacTane wrote:

> Hi there. I've got a Slackware 8.0 system with lilo 21.7-5 on a homebrewed 
> Pentium 133. When I boot the machine, LILO appears to work normally... as 
> long as you don't try hitting "Tab" for a menu of available kernels to 
> boot. If you do give it keyboard input, of any type, it seems to just 
> silently ignore it.
> 
> Does anyone know what might be causing this? Thansk in advance.

USB keyboard? I see exactly the same results with my laptop: LILO accesses 
the keyboard via the BIOS, which doesn't support USB keyboards, only the 
internal one.


James.