Messages in this thread |  | | From | Matt <> | Subject | Re: linux won't boot without a keyboard | Date | 20 Nov 1996 16:27:30 GMT |
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Hamish Neil Moffatt <moffatt@minyos.its.rmit.edu.au> wrote: : On a system here (Shuttle HOT-433, 486 PCI motherboard, with AMD 5x86-133 : fitted), Linux (2.0.25) won't boot without a keyboard attached. : LILO loads, loads Linux; I get "Loading Linux ....."; then it waits : forever, until a keyboard is plugged in. Once the keyboard : is connected it resumes immediately. Keyboard is set to absent : in the (AMI) BIOS; we'd prefer not to have a keyboard attached : because this machine will be in a server environment off our premises.
I'll also pipe in a "me to" message here. I have a Biostar 486 PCI motherboard with the AMD133 chip in it. And booting without the keyboard used to work fine. Sometime in the 2.0.x upgrades it appears to have stopped working. I also started getting a lot of keyboard errors reported now. I use a keyboard/monitor switch on 4 boxes, and had successfully tested a full power outage scenario before.
This is something in linux as opposed to the bios, as I get the same as above, the kernel image is loaded. It fails to start spewing kernel information until I plug the keyboard in. And it will sit and wait, until a keyboard is plugged in. Was there some kernel change made in the 2.0.x series to update something in the keyboards perhaps?
-- -Matt (panzer@dhp.com) -- DataHaven Project - http://www.dhp.com/ "That which can never be enforced should not be prohibited."
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