Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 13:32:47 +0200 From: Sven Huster <shup@netzmarkt.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running headless Message-ID: <20000524133247.A37808@sirius.hq.netzmarkt.de> In-Reply-To: <20000524000646.D40441@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>; from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com on Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:06:46AM -0400 References: <NIEBLEDADLBOBAJFKPHDCEEECAAA.troy@picus.com> <200005231855.LAA22995@tera.com> <20000524000646.D40441@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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by the way, does anybody knew about a x86-based motherboard, which supports serial access to BIOS etc. so it could be run completely without any keyboard and graphics even on installation. thanks sven On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:06:46AM -0400, Crist J. Clark wrote: > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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