Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 02:19:40 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Off Topic:Keyboard Error halting Boot and Override Message-ID: <20010203021940.E1233@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102021709140.56975-100000@prime.gushi.org>; from danm@prime.gushi.org on Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 05:11:23PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102021709140.56975-100000@prime.gushi.org>
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On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 05:11:23PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Hey all, > > I know this is off topic, but I figure someone might know how to do > this. We have a number of users in our data center who colocate machines > that will on occasion refuse to boot if there is no keyboard attached. I > was wondering if anyone knew of a "dongle" to attach to the keyboard port > that will make the system "think" there's a keyboard there. A web search Know of no dongles, however there is often a BIOS option to ignore certain kinds of errors on startup. I even have an ancient 486 SX in this room that has the option, so your Cray II Massively Parallel PC's probably do as well :) Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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