[CentOS] Booting without a keyboard

Ross S. W. Walker rwalker at medallion.com
Wed Feb 13 22:06:17 UTC 2008


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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