From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 24 13:32:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server1.cyberix.com (server1.cyberix.com [207.106.53.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE3411AEF for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:31:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brad@cyberix.com) Received: from BillyJoeBob (max1-ppp-22.cyberix.com [207.106.53.201]) by server1.cyberix.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA01476; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:44:11 -0500 (EST) From: "Brad Benson" To: "freebsd-questions" , "James Brown" Subject: RE: (2) no keyboard, no boot Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:47:59 -0500 Message-ID: <000a01be5fa8$78930cc0$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <36D2EEB3.7E97C7D3@syndicate.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > yes, it does stop before the boot: prompt. the last screen is > the hardware inventory, the last two lines are "256 kb cache > memory" and "160mhz cpu clock." it will sit there forever but i > once i plug in a keyboard, it goes straight to the boot: prompt. > It's definitely the Hardware, but there may be no solution. All I can say is to try and poke around the bios some more. A lot of the older BIOS's just won't let you boot without a keyboard. F1 error or not. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message