On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 08:46:33AM -0400, Jason Healy wrote: | Here at work I paved my Dell optiplex and put both Windows (cause I have to) | and Debian (cause I want to) on it. | | I need a bootloader that understands USB, so I can pick which OS to boot. | Right now I can't because the computer drops USB support after the BIOS, but | before the bootloader. Since I only have a USB keyboard, this is a problem.
Hmm, yeah, I guess that's the next killer feature for bootloaders. I wonder how hard it would be to port the basic usbkbd part of the Linux kernel to GRUB. I noticed this with this laptop at work, but fortuanately for me the builtin keyboard works. For now you can get a keyboard for $0-$10 to stick in the PS2 port just for booting. (I've gotten some that were $10 - $10 rebate) -D