Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 2 May 1996 23:54:44 -0400 (EDT) | From | Jon Lewis <> | Subject | Re: Serial Console mini HOWTO |
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On 1 May 1996, Larry McVoy wrote:
> You'll also be bummed to learn that while you can lose the graphics card > and monitor, most motherboards seem to want a keyboard plugged in to boot. > If anyone has a trick to get rid of this limitation (I'll bet you can > hot wire it somehow), let me know.
I ususally leave in a cheapo VGA card for when things go wrong. Many modern systems have a CMOS setup setting for keyboard not installed, and I also tell them to halt on no errors. Lots of my boxes have no keyboard except when they're sick.
BTW...is it "bad" to plug in a keybard with the system running? I worry about frying the keyboard controller...but I hate to power down. Never know when the hard drive might decide not to spin back up.
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