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Date:      Sat, 3 Feb 2001 02:19:40 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To:        "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Off Topic:Keyboard Error halting Boot and Override
Message-ID:  <20010203021940.E1233@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102021709140.56975-100000@prime.gushi.org>; from danm@prime.gushi.org on Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 05:11:23PM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102021709140.56975-100000@prime.gushi.org>

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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 :)

Cliff



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