From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 07:53:49 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id HAA21855 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 07:53:49 -0700 Received: from prades.cesca.es (prades.cesca.es [192.94.163.152]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA21848 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 07:53:40 -0700 Received: by prades.cesca.es (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA17383; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 16:50:04 +0200 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 16:45:58 +0200 (METDST) From: Carles Amengual Reply-To: Carles Amengual Subject: Re: Headless/keyboardless booting... To: Michael Smith Cc: Joe McGuckin , questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507240746.RAA29431@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 24 Jul 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > Joe McGuckin stands accused of saying: > > Can freebsd boot without a keyboard or video card? Can a > > In principle yes; I've noticed that some systems have problems booting > without a keyboard though. AT-like PCs use a keyboard interrupt (I think is A20, though not sure) to address RAM above ~1 MB, so FreeBSD (nor any other OS) should not be able to work without a keyboard. Maybe this is no longer true for some PCs, but I have not seen it. However, many newer PCs handle much better all this. ------------------------------------------------- Carlos Amengual, amengual@prades.cesca.es Sociedad Astronomica de Espana y America (SADEYA) Av. Diagonal, 377, 2 ; 08008 Barcelona, Spain ------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: Any error in this message should be considered as my boss's opinion, and not mine.