Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 07:20:00 -0600 (MDT) From: David Simmons <simmons@davidsimmons.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: No keyboard at boottime prevents use of keyboard later! Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10107250708320.8170-100000@tardis.nu>
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If a keyboard is not present when FreeBSD boots, a keyboard cannot be plugged in later and used. This is a real nuisance in a server environment where machines need to run headless, but also need to be keyboardable when a keyboard/video cart is wheeled over to examine the machine. I'm guessing that the OS is defaulting to using the serial port as a console, preventing the use of the keyboard as a console. I don't know how to disable this behavior. I realize that a serial console scheme would be cleaner overall, and I'm planning such a scheme, but it would be nice in the meantime to not have to power cycle machines that become unreachable on the network. I'm using 4.3-STABLE. Thanks for any assistance. David -- David Simmons Waltham, Massachusetts, USA "Today is a fine day for science!" -- Dexter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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