Everyone,
Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present. I have a firewall and another mail server that would fit into a closet a little better without a keyboard.
I tried to remove the keyboard but the system hangs giving me notice that a keyboard was not found.
Greg Ennis
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present.
That's a bios thing... Look for the various settings controlling KB errors etc...
Heh. I have a rack of systems with Tyan S2466 motherboards, none of which have keyboards attached. Each has a BIOS setting to prevent squawking if the keyboard is not found. Half of them squawk anyway.
-s
Thanks everyone.....
Sure appreciate your suggestions!!!!!!
I thought about the resistor and wondered if anyone had done anything like that.
I really should have checked the bios, but I've never had this circumstance before.
Thanks again!!!
Greg
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:33 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present.
That's a bios thing... Look for the various settings controlling KB errors etc...
Heh. I have a rack of systems with Tyan S2466 motherboards, none of which have keyboards attached. Each has a BIOS setting to prevent squawking if the keyboard is not found. Half of them squawk anyway.
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Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
Thanks everyone.....
Sure appreciate your suggestions!!!!!!
I thought about the resistor and wondered if anyone had done anything like that.
I think it needs more then resistance like a gate 20 emulator in a dongle.
Easier to just have the BIOS ignore it.
I really should have checked the bios, but I've never had this circumstance before.
Thanks again!!!
Greg
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:33 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present.
That's a bios thing... Look for the various settings controlling KB errors etc...
Heh. I have a rack of systems with Tyan S2466 motherboards,
none of which
have keyboards attached. Each has a BIOS setting to prevent
squawking if
the keyboard is not found. Half of them squawk anyway.
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I have a Dell Inspiron 521 WITHOUT a PS2 port and IT squawks.. I had to plug in a USB Keyboard..... It's up in a rack in my garage, so I don't care..... Dennis
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Steve Thompson Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:33 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present.
That's a bios thing... Look for the various settings controlling KB errors etc...
Heh. I have a rack of systems with Tyan S2466 motherboards, none of which have keyboards attached. Each has a BIOS setting to prevent squawking if the keyboard is not found. Half of them squawk anyway.
-s _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Steve Thompson Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:33 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present.
Why not put it in the closet boot the machine and then pull the keyboard.. Only time you reboot is on upgrades of certain packages. I have a couple compaqs I have to plug in a keyboard to reboot.
HTH
Or, on power failures.... I got home last night, and the Dell I mentioned was off. Turned out that the power was out for a few hours yesterday. I jumped in the bios on startup and changed the "halt on errors" to "except Keyboard" AND changed the AC power failure to "Last" so it will power up when the power comes back on. No UPS on this machine. It's only been in place for 4 days. It's a friends machine hosting a few websites on my FTTH connection.....
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Brian Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:06 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Steve Thompson Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:33 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] Booting without a keyboard
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Is there a way to have Centos boot when no keyboard is present.
Why not put it in the closet boot the machine and then pull the keyboard.. Only time you reboot is on upgrades of certain packages. I have a couple compaqs I have to plug in a keyboard to reboot.
HTH _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:26:04 -0600 "Gregory P. Ennis" PoMec@PoMec.Net wrote:
I tried to remove the keyboard but the system hangs giving me notice that a keyboard was not found.
That's a bios issue, not an operating system issue.
Check your computer's bios and see if it has an "ignore keyboard error" or similar setting.
If not, you can fake it by building a resistor into a keyboard plug and hooking that up to your computer instead of an actual keyboard. There are several plans online that show you how to do this.
On Feb 14, 2008 2:56 AM, Gregory P. Ennis PoMec@pomec.net wrote:
I tried to remove the keyboard but the system hangs giving me notice that a keyboard was not found.
All my CentOS firewalls run without keyboad and mouses. I think it is related to BIOS.
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