At Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:49:23 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > 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. > > Nah! Every BIOS since I remember (at least from 1990) had a choice on > the first page, Standard BIOS Setup. "Halt on all errors, Halt on > keyboard/video errors, Halt on no errors". At least these three were > always present. > > Of course the default is always "Halt on all errors". Unless you modify > the settings on purpose, that's what happens. And some *early* Dell *servers* (*late* 1990s -- 1998 or so), would *always* halt on keyboard errors, with no option to suppress this. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/