Some motherboards (my Zeos 486 for example) have just a field that says "keyboard" where you can set enable/disable. For the longest time, I had no idea why you'd want to disable a keyboard (and how you'd re-enable it once it's disabled). Silly me. Disable the *search* for a keyboard on boot; if it's there, use it.....if not, then the machine doesn't worry about it.
Finally, if it is such a pain to get it to boot without a keyboard, why not get a compact one, plug it in and just set it aside? Changing motherboards seems extreme and expensive compared to a $10 compact, low-tech solution. Good Luck Tony -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ewald Wasscher Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 4:26 PM To: Warren Post Cc: leaf-user Subject: Re: [leaf-user] OT: Won't boot if headless On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 22:04, 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. In many bioses there is an option like "Halt on:" where you can choose if your machine should refuse booting if it has no keyboard, no videocard etc, or that it should boot without those. You should be able to find more information in the manual of the mainboard. For most mainboards the manual can be found at the manufacturer's website if you don't have it anymore. Ewald Wasscher ------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
