John Murray wrote:
On 7/22/05, Ugo Bellavance ugob@camo-route.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm running CentOS 3 on a Dell celeron 500/256 MB. It won't bootwithout a keyboard and that is a problem for me. I know it is not a perfect setup, but I'd like to have it boot w/o a keyboard. The Bios doesn't seem to care too much about the fact that no keyboard is plugged in, as it loads Grub and starts booting the kernel. It hangs, usually around
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
Any ideas?
Thanks,
I ran in to this same issue on some Intel 810 mother boards, the BIOS was setup to ignore keyboard errors so it would start booting centos, and the kernel would hang in the same place. I fixed this by adding the "apm=off" kernel parameter in the grub.conf file.
My fix was to add "apm=off" to the end of each kernel line in the grub.conf file like this:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL ro root=LABEL=/ apm=off
I just tried it and it was the solution! :). I had a good feeling that this wasn't a BIOS issue.
Thanks ! :)