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Usb keyboard unavailable during boot until all usb devices are initialised (solutions?) [solved] (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Without other usb devices the keyboard works immediately. With them it takes 5 ish seconds for it to start responding. This is regardless of which device is discovered first (which I can manipulate), it seems to just wait for all of them. Is there a way to make it not do that?

Edit: This is specifically about linux boot. It otherwise works fine in bios / bootloader

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I had a motherboard like this: the USB ports didn't work until it booted into an OS. You had to connect a PS2 to make changes in the BIOS, and could only boot from IDE. It was super-annoying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yep if the MB has a PS/2 slot this is the solution.

You can also get a usb to PS/2 converter so you don't need an extra keyboard.