From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 2 17:34:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prime.gushi.org (unknown [208.23.118.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E16637B401 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:34:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (danm@localhost) by prime.gushi.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA60954; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 20:39:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from danm@prime.gushi.org) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 20:39:17 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Off Topic:Keyboard Error halting Boot and Override In-Reply-To: <20010203021940.E1233@raggedclown.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > 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 :) But my not-nearly-compact professionally non-compliant (Compaq Proliant) does NOT, and a few others still complain as well. I've got 80 diverse machines here. The ones that CAN be told not to whine, have. -Dan -- "A mother can be an inspiration to her little son, change his thoughts, his mind, his life, just with her gentle hum." -No Doubt, "Different People", from "Tragic Kingdom" --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Web: http://prime.gushi.org finger danm@prime.gushi.org for pgp public key and tel# --------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message