From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 23 21: 7:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@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 7AC5B37B91B for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 21:07:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA40759; Wed, 24 May 2000 00:06:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:06:46 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Gary Kline Cc: Troy Settle , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running headless Message-ID: <20000524000646.D40441@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <200005231855.LAA22995@tera.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200005231855.LAA22995@tera.com>; from kline@tera.com on Tue, May 23, 2000 at 11:55:16AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 11:55:16AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > According to Troy Settle: > > > > I've got 5 or 6 boxes running headless. I don't do anything special with > > the kernel. > > > > Do you do anything to getty or anything else in /etc so > that getty isn't continually trying to spawn a tty for > the console? > > Seems to me that I got complaints trying to boot without > a keyboard once... > > It'd be nice if I could move my othre CRT//keyboard away > and boot without things blowing up (!) That's your BIOS. It has nothing to do with the kernel (since you never actually get to booting it). Go into the BIOS and try to find an option to "Boot on error" or something about booting without keyboards. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message