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Date:      Tue, 02 Sep 2003 10:36:36 +0100
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        Nicole <nicole@daemontech.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question related to FreeBSD Serial Console...
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20030902103001.0217e758@gid.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.030901163633.nicole@daemontech.com>
References:  <3F53D645.2040501@freebsd.org>

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Hi,

At 00:36 2/9/03, Nicole wrote:

>  *SIGH*
>  No what I want is NO serial console. DO NOT FOR ANY REASON turn off/not resp
>ond to the keyboard port

Unfortunately, many motherboards (BIOSs?) won't initialise a PS/2 keyboard 
interface unless a keyboard is connected at boot time, so if you plug in a 
keyboard subsequently it won't work. Nothing the OS can do in this case (I 
believe), and yes it's a PITA.

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Bob Bishop		    +44 (0)118 977 4017
rb@gid.co.uk		fax +44 (0)118 989 4254



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