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How to choose OS when the arrow keys won't work in grub

Asked by lorenzino

I am trying to connect a keyboard called PC-Midi (by Creative) to be used in Windows 2000 OS. I have a dual boot MBR, which I believe is called Grub. So, when I see the screen to make the choice, the arrows will not work, so it times out and boots ubuntu. Then the keyboard works normally! How do I get into the Windows OS with this keyboard? I suppose the answer is to edit Grub, but how do you do that?

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Carlo Vanini (silhusk) said : 		#1

The configuration file of Grub is /boot/grub/menu.lst. You must edit it as root, e.g. with
gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
you can change the default system by editing
default 0
This is NOT a Solution: arrows still do not work, but you changed default OS.

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Simon Loggen (simonloggen) said : 		#2

I had a similar problem with my USB keyboard, I took a PS2 keyboard and it worked fine, this problem appeared on some older PC's I have so maybe it has something to do with USB keyboards not being recognised by the PC. I also had problems once with an 7 yr old machine that when I plugged in an USB mouse the PS2 keyboard didnt work anymore with GRUB.. anyway I hope you can find a solution with these things I ran into.

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Matthew Lange (matthewlange) said : 		#3

I linked this ticket to bug 36342:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/grub/+bug/36342

It seems to be the same problem you describe, but with another keyboard.

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CYRUS (imtiaz-saeed) said : 		#4

Guys... guess wot im using a PS2 keyboard and it was working fine till yesterday but now the arrow keys are not working at OS selection menu. Furthermore, i cant get into my BIOS by hitting DEL key. The only thing i can do is ALT+CTRL+DEL to reboot. But when ubuntu starts it starts working fine. Pls help me in this regard!

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CYRUS (imtiaz-saeed) said : 		#5

Thanks guys.. solved the problem by reseting the bios from mobo jumper.

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