On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 9:10 AM Kamil Paral kparal@redhat.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 3:10 PM Chris Murphy lists@colorremedies.com wrote:
Using virt-manager, F8 increases the sound on my laptop.
Then it's not F8 :D Either configure your keyboard (in BIOS, in runtime) to use Fx keys instead of multimedia keys, or pressing Fn+F8 should actually send F8, at least that's how most systems do it.
:facepalm: you're right. I only ever press F8/volume+ key without pressing Fn key too. When I use Fn+F8 so far I'm consistently getting a grub menu (this is virt-manager).
For whatever reason it never passes through to the VM only. And two of three computers F8 is reserved for the firmware.
You have to hit it at the right moment, which can be very tricky :-/
The hardware case is different. They seem to accept F8 key alone or in combination with Fn key as F8. So if F8 key is pressed, for sure the firmware menu comes up. So shift needs to work for grub - or something. Spacebar. Tab. Anything. But this is why I gave up on menu autohide a long time ago and just unset autohide on baremetal machines.
Stephen says you can hit any key to make GRUB show, I couldn't verify that yet.
I'm beginning to think it depends on specific combinations of things... including the phase of the moon.