Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 04:47:26 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Alexander Thorp <atecsc@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq with no keyboard - how to boot? Message-ID: <20011114044726.P61915@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20011114095453.44335.qmail@web20802.mail.yahoo.com>; from atecsc@yahoo.com on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:54:53AM -0800 References: <20011114095453.44335.qmail@web20802.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:54:53AM -0800, Alexander Thorp wrote:
> Not unique to FreeBSD, I realise, but:
>
> I've got a Compaq PC (D5133) which I want to use as a
> server, without monitor or keyboard, but I can't get
> it to boot without a keyboard plugged in. I can't find
> anything in the diagnostics partition set-up menu to
> change this behaviour.
>
> Does anybody know a way to make it boot without a
> keyboard attached, e.g. secret set-up command or
> motherboard jumper setting?
"Boot on error" is a common name for the BIOS setting you need to
change. The other is "Boot without keyboard," but I would suspect you
could have recoginzed that. If worse comes to worse, you can always
just plug in an old keyboard to make it happy.
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| cjclark@jhu.edu
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