Hello,
In building a cluster, I'd like a motherboard/bios that supports a LAN
managed system. I'm looking to not use a keyboard, monitor, or mouse
after the initial set-up.
I'll be accessing these systems through the LAN by telnet etc. Do you
know if this is common, rare, whatever in MB's
Most, if not all, newer BIOSes allow you to disable the keyboard check.
Monitor and mouse aren't checked, so no problem there. I have a 4-year
old 486 in my garage which I have run for months with no monitor, mouse or
keyboard running my packet radio station and do all the access via
ethernet. I
Note that many BIOSes (if not all? there must be some out there..) will not
boot without
a display adapter. This doesn't mean you have to have a monitor. I built a 486
server at
home sans keyboard but I had to keep a display adapter in it. Fortunately I had
a
salvaged 286 with a plain vanilla
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