Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 07:45:25 +0200 From: "Fabian Thylmann" <fthylmann@maximizemedia.de> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: <freebsd-smp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SMP Kernel only booting with keyboard? Message-ID: <00b601c2391e$a414e4b0$0201000a@sonic> References: <014201c237ec$f0a945b0$0201000a@sonic> <3D46F9C0.D1E25132@mindspring.com> <003b01c238b6$6173af50$0201000a@sonic> <3D4854CB.281A8CBE@mindspring.com>
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This is an Intel SCB2 ... Its a Board JUST for servers. That is what confuses me. But I guess I am just goign to have to buy a dongle then. Of course it sounds like a bug in the board, but I was hoping there was a fix that didn't envolve buying a dongle or just leaving a keyboard plugged in. Fabian Thylmann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Fabian Thylmann" <fthylmann@maximizemedia.de> Cc: <freebsd-smp@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 11:21 PM Subject: Re: SMP Kernel only booting with keyboard? > Fabian Thylmann wrote: > > I upgraded the bios to the newest version, and there is no option about > > anything with the keyboard. > > > > So is there some other reason for this maybe? > > You bought the wrong motherboard? > > > Some BIOS require that a keyboard be present. Of these, some > will allow you to turn this requirement off in the "advanced > setup". > > Whole companies exist to sell "keyboard dongles": little > devices that plug into a keyboard connector, and pretend to > be a keyboard well enough to fool these BIOSs. > > > FreeBSD somewhat complicates matters, because it's keyboard > probe is rather "aggressive". This also tends to make FreeBSD > cause KVM switches, such as the Belkin OmniView line with > firmware versions below 1.9 to barf. This is basically to > allow probing for the keyboard, which is required to be able > to perform a hardware reset line trigger on older systems, > and to permit probing for a PS/2 mouse, where the BIOS data > is unreliable or the BIOS does not contain explicit mouse > support. Nevertheless, Windows doesn't have this problem, > even on very old machines. > > The real answer is to buy only "rack ready" motherboards, if > you intend to run without a keyboard present. > > -- Terry > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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