[CentOS] Re: Not booting without keyboad.

[Ugo Bellavance]

John Murray wrote:
> On 7/22/05, Ugo Bellavance <ugob at camo-route.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>        I'm running CentOS 3 on a Dell celeron 500/256 MB.  It won't boot
>>without 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 ! :)

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