Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 10:33:21 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael C. Newell" <mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov> To: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@jake.lodgenet.com> Cc: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Headless/keyboardless booting... Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950725103124.23709B-100000@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199507251412.JAA01926@jake.lodgenet.com>
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On Tue, 25 Jul 1995, Eric L. Hernes wrote: > > I've not seen ANY PC that will boot without a video card of some sort; > > they always fail in POST. What we did was get an ancient CGA card from a > > junk box at a HAM fest for $1 and stuff that in. It's enough to get past > > POST. > > We've got over a thousand pc's here booting without keyboards OR video > cards. Mostly run SCO unix and xenix. I've personally set up three > FreeBSD machines without keyboards or video cards. Most of the motherboards > are micronics. The newest one is a pci/pentium based critter which has > been discontinued, M54si, I believe. Cool!! What do you do to get past the BIOS POST? In my case, every motherboard I've tried (mostly AMI and Phoenix BIOSen) just gave "beep codes" when powered up without a video card. Note that it's OK not to have a monitor; but they had to have a card... Thanks, Mike +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ |Mike Newell | The opinions expressed herein are | |NASA Science Internet Network Systems | my own, and do not necessarily | |Sterling Software, Inc. | reflect those of the NSI program, | |MNewell@nsipo.nasa.gov | Sterling Software, NASA, or anyone | |+1-202-434-8954 | else. | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | work: http://www.eco.nsi.nasa.gov/~mnewell | | home: http://www.newell.arlington.va.us | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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