Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 01:46:02 -0700 From: "Corey Snow" <corey@snowpoint.com> To: "Corey Snow" <corey@snowpoint.com>, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make a headless box Message-ID: <3D0161DA.23723.21D7C61@localhost> In-Reply-To: <7EB5E2F9-7ABB-11D6-B30D-0003931BED80@shire.net> References: <3D015593.9860.1ED8AAD@localhost>
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On 8 Jun 2002, at 4:41, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > Most computer BIOSes, especially that old, won't allow you to start up > without a video card. That doesn't mean you have to have a monitor > attached... You can run headless by not attaching the monitor to it. > Make sure you tell the BIOS to ignore keyboard errors if you can -- many > BIOSes won't go past a keyboard error unoless you have a setting set to > ignore keyboard errors. > > Chad > After I sent that message I managed to find some additional resources. Turns out I'm pretty lucky to have such an ancient machine. Since it has an American Megatrends (AMI) BIOS from 1993, I can shut off both the keyboard and the display probes, so it'll boot with no video card. Still, it's pretty late and I don't feel like recompiling my kernel tonight to enable a serial console. I'll tackle that tomorrow. :) Regards, Corey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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