From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 22 21:54: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from turkey.ispro.net.tr (turkey.ispro.net.tr [195.174.18.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EFBE1139A for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 21:53:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr) Received: from localhost (yurtesen@localhost) by turkey.ispro.net.tr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA18655; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 07:53:35 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 07:53:35 +0200 (EET) From: Evren Yurtesen To: Brad Benson Cc: freebsd-questions , James Brown Subject: RE:(2) no keyboard, no boot In-Reply-To: <000d01be5ed7$875ab180$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG if you have award bios, get into the "standart CMOS setup" and then set "halt on:" option to "No errors" it would work.... I have no clue if you have another manufacturers bios sorry :( let me know if it works... Evren On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Brad Benson wrote: > > i've got a 2.2.7 system that will not boot without a keyboard. i > > have selected "absent keyboard" and "disable F1 on any error" in > > bios. i also tried a kernel built with options COMCONSOLE and > > tried booting with boot.config empty and with the -P flag. is > > there something else i could try? > > > > i built a cyrix 686 running 2.2.7 and it boots fine with the > > keyboard disabled in bios. this is an amd 486, maybe the older > > bios is a problem? the only solution i can think of is to plug > > in a cheap keyboard and shove it inside the chassis. > > Knowing the bios's in some of those older 386 and 486 machines I > would guess that the bios is the problem. Where does the boot stop? > What message does the machine give you? If it's before you get a > "boot:" prompt, it's probably the computer not FreeBSD. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message