Thanks for the replies. The change to grub.conf worked. |---------+------------------------------> | | Scott Sharkey | | | <ssharkey@linuxunli| | | mited.com> | | | Sent by: | | | redhat-list-bounces| | | @redhat.com | | | No Phone Info | | | Available | | | | | | 10/01/2004 10:31 AM| | | Please respond to | | | General Red Hat | | | Linux discussion | | | list | | | | |---------+------------------------------> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> | | cc: | | Subject: Re: GRUB Boot Fails on P3 without Keyboard | >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| At 08:18 AM 10/1/2004, you wrote: > > My RH9 P3 systems fail to boot GRUB while the P4 systems boot without any > problems. When the P3 tries to boot, it hangs before the RedHat Linux > interactive setup at a line that says "apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 > (Driver version 1.16)". If a keyboard is attached to the P3, it will > boot > without issues but the system must boot without a keyboard. The P3 will > boot LILO without a keyboard attached. Any idea how to get GRUB to boot > without a keyboard on the P3's? This is a known problem with some motherboard/bios combinations. What you need to do is turn off APM in the kernel. Modify all of the kernel lines in grub.conf to add apm=off, like so: > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-30.9smp ro root=LABEL=/ apm=off -Scott -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
