From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 2 17:31:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7239137B67D for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:31:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=gateway.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 14OrXX-0000X1-00; Sat, 03 Feb 2001 01:31:00 +0000 Received: from buffy.raggedclown.net (buffy.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Gateway) with ESMTP id DF30433968; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 02:20:19 +0100 (CET) Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id 9F5AF12D4F; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 02:19:40 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 02:19:40 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Off Topic:Keyboard Error halting Boot and Override Message-ID: <20010203021940.E1233@raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from danm@prime.gushi.org on Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 05:11:23PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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