GRUB Boot Fails on P3 without Keyboard

[Scott Sharkey]

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?

This is a known problem with some motherboard/bios combinations.  What 
you need to do is turn off APM in the kernel.  Modify all of the kernel 
lines in grub.conf to add apm=off, like so:

>       kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-30.9smp ro root=LABEL=/ apm=off

-Scott