Boot without keyboard

[Pete Nesbitt]

On July 4, 2004 09:01 am, ABrady wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 11:12:52 +0100
>
> Philip Gaskell <pdgaskell at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running rh9 with kernel version 2.4.20-8 and my box won't boot
> > without a keyboard. I've told BIOS to ignore checking for the
> > keyboard, and the grub bootloader starts then starts to load linux but
> > then linux just hangs. I've heard about using keyboard dongles or even
> > plugging a mouse into the keyboard socket to make it work, but surely
> > there is a better alternative, somewhere in the configuration.
> >
> > By the way the box will boot fine without a mouse or monitor
> >

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> It mostly appears (to me) that you'll either need to redirect the
> console to the serial port (?) or turn off apm support in the kernel,
> according to those links.

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Hi,

That makes sence. I have built several machines with no kvm, and never had a 
problem. Anyway, being 'headless', would imply some type of  
server/fw/gateway, so it only makes sence to disable APM. I have my firewall 
on a serial port to a dumb tube, which is handy (at least in theory, if say 
the network [ssh] access fails). 

-- 
Pete Nesbitt, rhce