On July 4, 2004 09:01 am, ABrady wrote: > On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 11:12:52 +0100 > > Philip Gaskell <pdgaskell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running rh9 with kernel version 2.4.20-8 and my box won't boot > > without a keyboard. I've told BIOS to ignore checking for the > > keyboard, and the grub bootloader starts then starts to load linux but > > then linux just hangs. I've heard about using keyboard dongles or even > > plugging a mouse into the keyboard socket to make it work, but surely > > there is a better alternative, somewhere in the configuration. > > > > By the way the box will boot fine without a mouse or monitor > > <snip> > It mostly appears (to me) that you'll either need to redirect the > console to the serial port (?) or turn off apm support in the kernel, > according to those links. <snip> Hi, That makes sence. I have built several machines with no kvm, and never had a problem. Anyway, being 'headless', would imply some type of server/fw/gateway, so it only makes sence to disable APM. I have my firewall on a serial port to a dumb tube, which is handy (at least in theory, if say the network [ssh] access fails). -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
