From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 15 22:22:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spyros.hermans.ca (h24-65-98-68.ed.shawcable.net [24.65.98.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B4237B418 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:22:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from otidan (otidan.inside [192.168.32.100]) by spyros.hermans.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FB7A2F9C39; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:22:48 -0700 (MST) From: "Jamie Hermans" To: "'Alexander Thorp'" , Subject: RE: Compaq with no keyboard - how to boot? Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:23:24 -0700 Organization: hermans.ca Message-ID: <003101c16e67$3269dcd0$6420a8c0@otidan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3311 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20011114095453.44335.qmail@web20802.mail.yahoo.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of > Alexander Thorp > Sent: November 14, 2001 2:55 am > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Compaq with no keyboard - how to boot? > > Does anybody know a way to make it boot without a > keyboard attached, e.g. secret set-up command or > motherboard jumper setting? Get into the Compaq BIOS (whether by floppy, SmartStart CD or System Partition), press ^A at the main menu, and you should get a notice about entering Advanced Config Mode. It's a somewhat undocumented feature that I tripped over a while back when I was trying to get SMP working on a Prosignia 500... Lots of extra settings that you would find in most "normal" BIOS's - including a switch to ignore missing keyboards :) -- Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message