On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 15:31 -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Robert Heller wrote:
At Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:56:16 -1000 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
I just installed centos on a Dell that used to have 2 internal disks, but I removed one just before the install. Now when I boot it, it stops
and
outputs a message complaining about the missing disk and I have to hit F1 to get it to continue booting.
Is there some bios setting that is causing this? Obviously, I'd like it
<snip> > Dell servers seem to be wonky about this sort of thing (older ones would > not boot without a keyboard installed, even if they were esentually > 'headless'). I am not sure how to deal with this. It seems to be a > Dell-specific BIOS hack of some sort (and a *dumb* one at that).
This is not a "Dell-specific BIOS hack". Dear child, ask your folks about PCs. I think it was only this decade that PCs would actually boot *without* a keyboard. EVERY PC EVER MADE before would not.
Sorry, but I have to respectfully disagree with that statement.
I have been using "old" ( some folks might say "antique" ) desktop machines as firewalls/fileservers for a handful of friends for the better part of 10 years now. This goes back to old Dell GXi boxes ( Pentium 166 ) and homebuilt AMD K-6 systems. In ALL cases, I was able to configure the BIOS settings such that the system would boot without a keyboard connected. AFAIR all of those systems had a single setting to avoid a halt of the boot process because of a missing keyboard, and we're talking about BIOS versions back to around 1997.
mark "tease me about my age, and I'll beat you with my cane!"
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