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Date:      Mon, 22 Feb 1999 21:52:18 -0500
From:      "Brad Benson" <brad@cyberix.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "James Brown" <jb@syndicate.net>
Subject:   RE: no keyboard, no boot
Message-ID:  <000d01be5ed7$875ab180$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob>
In-Reply-To: <36D1EACF.5396F88F@syndicate.net>

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> i've got a 2.2.7 system that will not boot without a keyboard.  i
> have selected "absent keyboard" and "disable F1 on any error" in
> bios.  i also tried a kernel built with options COMCONSOLE and
> tried booting with boot.config empty and with the -P flag.  is
> there something else i could try?
> 
> i built a cyrix 686 running 2.2.7 and it boots fine with the
> keyboard disabled in bios.  this is an amd 486, maybe the older
> bios is a problem?  the only solution i can think of is to plug
> in a cheap keyboard and shove it inside the chassis.

Knowing the bios's in some of those older 386 and 486 machines I 
would guess that the bios is the problem. Where does the boot stop?
What message does the machine give you? If it's before you get a 
"boot:" prompt, it's probably the computer not FreeBSD. 



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