From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jul 10 14: 6:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36EA014E0C for ; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 14:06:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id RAA14196; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 17:07:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199907102107.RAA14196@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Faking the presence of the keyboard In-Reply-To: <000b01becb07$cee3fc90$0a0010ac@craxx.com> from laurens van alphen at "Jul 10, 99 09:10:00 pm" To: alphen@craxx.nl (laurens van alphen) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 17:07:45 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org laurens van alphen wrote, > Hi all, > > I have this old Compaq Prolinea 4/33 that just won't boot if > the keyboard is not jammed in. > > Can I somehow simulate the presence of the keyboard using some > resistors on the PS/2 interface on the back of the box? Double check that there is not a BIOS setting that allows it to boot without a keyboard. On some ol' 486's that I hooked to a serial console, the relevent option in the BIOS was called something like 'Continue Boot on Error.' -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message