grub (installer too) doesn't work with apple usb-keyboard on a pc-system

I can confirm that my (generic) USB keyboard also fails to work in grub. Both on my athlon machine (breezy) and on my dell inspiron 510m laptop (dapper, grub 0.97-1ubuntu8).

It works fine after boot, just not in grub.

This generally means that the BIOS isn't (sufficiently) emulating a legacy keyboard

Hey,

but how to install ubuntu on a machine as a newbie, without having a
PS/2-keyboard to hit the one and only enter?!

regards,

Am Dienstag, den 11.04.2006, 23:53 +0000 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> This generally means that the BIOS isn't (sufficiently) emulating a legacy keyboard

In the bios there should be an option for Legacy USB or USB keyboard, try looking in there for x86 systems at least.

Added a link from ticket 435:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/435

This seems to be the same problem.

I had this problem, and setting the legacy option in the bios indeed solved the problem for me (Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 motherboard) - running 6.06.1 daily from 20060806.1

This happened to me too.

This happens to me on an Intel iMac.

This happens to me on my PC with my "Logitech Cordless Desktop S510" usb keyboard. Using the included legacy PS/2 dongle works fine, but won't help people with newer motherboards that won't have PS2 ports.

I'm getting the same problem trying to install Gutsy tribe 1.

I'm using an Intel iMac in UK. The thread here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=499387
suggests the following workaround:
"If you unplug and replug a USB keyboard on the selection screen it should start working"

the issue with the intel mac keyboards is actually a apple firmware bug...

This issue seemed to be fixed by the wave of Firmware updates in November, but it is now broken again and the previous method of replugging the usb keyboard no longer works either.

Sorry, firmware updates from September not November.

Actually, the unplug/replug of the USB keyboard trick never seemed to work for me anyway. On some occasions it was possible to hold down a key to make the keyboard responsive at the Grub menu - but it mostly didn't work.

well it seems worse for me now. I don't think it has worked once since it broke again, and the USB trick worked EVERY time for me previously. It may be related to installing Leopard, as it seems so far that those of us that are seeing the regression have installed Leopard.

I also noticed that some files that appeared in the EFI partition after the firmware update are now missing. I don't know if this is the cause or not.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!