Ubuntu
grub package

Enable mouse-usage

Bug #12201 reported by koppor on 2005-01-24

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	grub (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi,

I wonder if it was possible to add mouse-support to grub?

It would be very convenient for a beginner to use the mouse to select the
operating system he wants to use.

Greetings

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote on 2005-01-28:

As a boot loader, grub is used very early in the startup process, when very few
system services are available. It only interacts with the user using BIOS
services, and the system BIOS does not provide access to a mouse

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koppor (olly) wrote on 2005-01-28:

I know, there are various mouse-drivers around and porting them all to GRUB
would be waste of resources.
But there were BIOSes with mouse-support (I didn't like them :)).
Nevertheless, I thought of supporting only common PS2 and USB-mice, since I got
the impression, there is only one protocol.