At 02:04 PM 9/24/02 -0600, Warren Post wrote: >This is a hardware problem, not a LEAF problem. But perhaps someone has >faced this issue before. > >Now that I have sshd working on our Dachstein box I want to >run it headless. Only now do I discover that it won't boot unless I plug a >keyboard back in. As a workaround I've got an old keyboard that doesn't >work very well plugged into the box, but that is both an inelegant >solution and a temptation to idle fingers. And our frequent power outages >mean that the box must reboot often and reliably. > >I suspect that the problem is hardwired and the only solution is to >change the motherboard. (I see no BIOS settings that should affect the >keyboard.) But somebody prove me wrong, please.
Since you don't say what mobo or BIOS you are using, we can hardly "prove" you either right or wrong. I can tell you that the place to look, usually, is on the first setup page of the BIOS (the name varies a bit; it is the one that has the time, the disk settings, and such on it). There *may* be a choice for what errors to halt on. If there is, one option will usually be "all except keyboard"; another will be "none". Choosing either of these will get you past problems with the absence of a keyboard. Not all BIOSs have this setting available; if yours doesn't, I suspect that there is no other workaround for you. (If the old chestnut about putting a resistor across two of the keyboard pins resurfaces in response to your message, don't believe it -- that solution dates back to XT-keyboard days and works with neither an AT keyboard or a PS2 keyboard). -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
