RE: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-14 Thread Dennis McLeod
Or, on power failures
I got home last night, and the Dell I mentioned was off.
Turned out that the power was out for a few hours yesterday.
I jumped in the bios on startup and changed the "halt on errors" to "except
Keyboard"
AND changed the AC power failure to "Last" so it will power up when the
power comes back on.
No UPS on this machine.
It's only been in place for 4 days.
It's a friends machine hosting a few websites on my FTTH connection. 

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> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
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>   
>>> Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present.
>>>   
  Why not put it in the closet boot the machine and then pull the keyboard..
Only time you reboot is on upgrades of certain packages.  I have a couple
compaqs I have to plug in a keyboard to reboot.

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Re: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-14 Thread Tom Brown



I tried to remove the keyboard but the system hangs giving me notice
that a keyboard was not found.



All my CentOS firewalls run without keyboad and mouses. I think it is
related to BIOS.

  


yes - check the 'halt on errors' section of your bios


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Re: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
On Feb 14, 2008 2:56 AM, Gregory P. Ennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> I tried to remove the keyboard but the system hangs giving me notice
> that a keyboard was not found.

All my CentOS firewalls run without keyboad and mouses. I think it is
related to BIOS.






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RE: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> 
> Thanks everyone.
> 
> 
> Sure appreciate your suggestions!!
> 
> I thought about the resistor and wondered if anyone had done anything
> like that.

I think it needs more then resistance like a gate 20 emulator in a dongle.

Easier to just have the BIOS ignore it.

> I really should have checked the bios, but I've never had this
> circumstance before.
> 
> Thanks again!!!
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:33 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> > 
> > >> Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present.
> > >
> > > That's a bios thing...
> > > Look for the various settings controlling KB errors etc...
> > 
> > Heh. I have a rack of systems with Tyan S2466 motherboards, 
> none of which 
> > have keyboards attached. Each has a BIOS setting to prevent 
> squawking if 
> > the keyboard is not found. Half of them squawk anyway.

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Re: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Brian



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On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote:

  

Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present.
  
 Why not put it in the closet boot the machine and then pull the 
keyboard.. Only time you reboot
is on upgrades of certain packages.  I have a couple compaqs I have to 
plug in a keyboard to reboot.


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RE: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Dennis McLeod
I have a Dell Inspiron 521 WITHOUT a PS2 port and IT squawks.. I had to plug
in a USB Keyboard.
It's up in a rack in my garage, so I don't care.
Dennis 

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On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote:

>> Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present.
>
> That's a bios thing...
> Look for the various settings controlling KB errors etc...

Heh. I have a rack of systems with Tyan S2466 motherboards, none of which
have keyboards attached. Each has a BIOS setting to prevent squawking if the
keyboard is not found. Half of them squawk anyway.

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RE: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Thanks everyone.


Sure appreciate your suggestions!!

I thought about the resistor and wondered if anyone had done anything
like that.

I really should have checked the bios, but I've never had this
circumstance before.

Thanks again!!!

Greg


On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:33 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> 
> >> Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present.
> >
> > That's a bios thing...
> > Look for the various settings controlling KB errors etc...
> 
> Heh. I have a rack of systems with Tyan S2466 motherboards, none of which 
> have keyboards attached. Each has a BIOS setting to prevent squawking if 
> the keyboard is not found. Half of them squawk anyway.
> 
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RE: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Steve Thompson

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote:


Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present.


That's a bios thing...
Look for the various settings controlling KB errors etc...


Heh. I have a rack of systems with Tyan S2466 motherboards, none of which 
have keyboards attached. Each has a BIOS setting to prevent squawking if 
the keyboard is not found. Half of them squawk anyway.


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Re: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:26:04 -0600
"Gregory P. Ennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I tried to remove the keyboard but the system hangs giving me notice
> that a keyboard was not found.

That's a bios issue, not an operating system issue.

Check your computer's bios and see if it has an "ignore keyboard error" or
similar setting.

If not, you can fake it by building a resistor into a keyboard plug and hooking
that up to your computer instead of an actual keyboard.  There are several
plans online that show you how to do this.

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RE: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present.

That's a bios thing...
Look for the various settings controlling KB errors etc...
jlc

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[CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

2008-02-13 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone,

Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present.  I have
a firewall and another mail server that would fit into a closet a little
better without a keyboard.

I tried to remove the keyboard but the system hangs giving me notice
that a keyboard was not found.

Greg Ennis

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