Graphical bootloader /w mouse support

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Nov 2 18:41:37 UTC 2011


On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 09:22:58AM -0700, Tyler Aviss wrote:
> I have a decent amount of experience configuring GRUB(2)/LILO as
> bootloaders, but seem to remember that there were bootloader(s) out
> there with mouse support.
> Perhaps my memory is rusty, but would anyone happen to know of any
> such bootloaders, and where I could find documentation on them?

Well grub2 has some usb support.

Could it be made to use a mouse?  Perhaps, but whyever would you want to?
The keyboard is a much faster and more accurate selection device.

Of course before USB, there were way too many different mouse protocols
to deal with.

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