From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 4 19:14:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA27091 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 19:14:31 -0700 Received: from mail.htp.com (mail.htp.com [199.171.4.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA27085 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 19:14:28 -0700 Received: from et.htp.com (et.htp.com [199.171.4.228]) by mail.htp.com (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id WAA08783 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 1995 22:13:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 22:13:01 -0400 Message-Id: <199507050213.WAA08783@mail.htp.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.htp.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: dennis@et.htp.com (dennis) Subject: Booting with no kbd Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk FreeBSD won't seem to boot on 2 machines I have with no keyboard installed. On both machines I have the "keyboard not installed" set in the bios. On 1 machine the system won't even try to load the kernel. With boot manager installed it just sits at the prompt and never times out. As soon as the keyboard is plugged in it continues ok. Without boot manager it just hangs without ever displaying the initial boot: prompt. The machine boots MS-DOS OK in the same configuration. The other machine loads the kernel ok, but then hangs at the sc0 probe. As soon as the kbd is plugged in, it continues. The only way I can get it to work is to disable sc0 on the second machine, which means I'd have to enable it when I wanted to use the keyboard. I can't get it to work on the first machine at all. The goal it to have a machine that normally sits with no keyboard and to plug in a keyboard only when console maintanence is required. Whats required to make this work? or does it work? There seems to be 2 separate problems here. db