[Bug 1537917] Re: grub does not respond to keyboard if usb drive is not present

[Phillip Susi]

I'm afraid this is a bug in your system's bios.  Grub uses it to read
from the keyboard, and if that keyboard happens to be USB, then it is up
to the bios to manage all of that.

Grub does have its own USB driver that you can force it to use instead
of the bios.  This might be a way for you to work around the bug.


** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  grub does not respond to keyboard if usb drive is not present

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Weirdest thing.  If I boot without a usb drive (drive in question:
  TAILS 2.0 beta https://tails.boum.org/news/test_2.0-rc1/index.en.html
  ), grub does not respond to keyboard input.  If I boot with said USB
  drive, it works just fine.

  lsusb entry for usb drive:
  Bus 001 Device 006: ID 8644:8003  

  grub-pc:
    Installed: 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7
    Candidate: 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7

  will try other USB drives as I get access to them.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: grub-pc 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-76.120-generic 3.13.11-ckt30
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-76-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Jan 25 15:50:18 2016
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-16 (8 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20130213)
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2016-01-19 (5 days ago)

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