GRUB Boot Fails on P3 without Keyboard

[Steve Buehler]

This might not be the issue here, but I think it is.  Anyway, it is 
probably NOT anything to do with Linux.  I have had some old systems that 
would not boot without a keyboard and tracing it down found that it was the 
motherboard/bios/cmos, not the OS causing the problem.  Some old boards 
required that you had a keyboard attached.  Check your CMOS and see if 
there is a spot for "Stop On Errors" and change that.

Steve

At 08:18 AM 10/1/2004, you wrote:





>My RH9 P3 systems fail to boot GRUB while the P4 systems boot without any
>problems.  When the P3 tries to boot, it hangs before the RedHat Linux
>interactive setup at a line that says "apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03
>(Driver version 1.16)".  If a keyboard is attached to the P3, it will boot
>without issues but the system must boot without a keyboard.  The P3 will
>boot LILO without a keyboard attached.  Any idea how to get GRUB to boot
>without a keyboard on the P3's?
>
>Thanks!
>
>The grub-0.93-4 RPM is installed.
>
>This is my grub.conf:
>default=0
>timeout=10
>splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-30.9smp)
>       root (hd0,0)
>       kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-30.9smp ro root=LABEL=/
>       initrd /initrd-2.4.20-30.9smp.img
>title Red Hat Linux-up (2.4.20-30.9)
>       root (hd0,0)
>       kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-30.9 ro root=LABEL=/
>       initrd /initrd-2.4.20-30.9.img
>
>This is partioning info from 'dh -h':
>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda9             244M  104M  127M  46% /
>/dev/hda1              99M   15M   80M  16% /boot
>/dev/hda2             3.9G   36M  3.7G   1% /home
>none                  250M     0  250M   0% /dev/shm
>/dev/hda6             3.9G  1.6G  2.2G  42% /usr
>/dev/hda3             3.9G   76M  3.6G   3% /usr/local
>/dev/hda5              21G   80M   20G   1% /var
>
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