From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 23 10: 9:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from carbon.cary.mci.net (carbon.cary.mci.net [204.70.140.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3479F10E7C for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:09:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jb@syndicate.net) Received: from syndicate.net (usr20-dialup26.mix1.Bloomington.cw.net [166.62.22.218]) by carbon.cary.mci.net (8.8.5/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01611; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:08:04 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36D2EEB3.7E97C7D3@syndicate.net> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:08:51 -0800 From: James Brown Organization: SYNDICATE Consulting Group, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: Brad Benson , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: (2) no keyboard, no boot References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 i've got ami bios with "F1 on any error" disabled. > > > > 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. yes, it does stop before the boot: prompt. the last screen is the hardware inventory, the last two lines are "256 kb cache memory" and "160mhz cpu clock." it will sit there forever but i once i plug in a keyboard, it goes straight to the boot: prompt. thanks for the quick responses everybody! james To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message