Booting without Mouse/KB

Bill Cavalieri bcavalieri at gekl.net
Sun Jun 2 02:24:40 CDT 2002


Yeah bios is set not to halt on kb or mouse errors.  Redhat starts to
boot, but then just hangs, in error log I see message for no kb found.

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Bill Cavalieri [mailto:bcavalieri at gekl.net]
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>>I have a bunch of 1U servers running redhat 7.1, they are
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>>8 port KVM.  When I have to reboot them RARELY (hint M$), the kernel
>>will panic if the KVM isn't set to that server.
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>>If anyone knows a setting or trick to get redhat to boot without
>>mouse/kb, I would love to learn it.
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>Usually it's the BIOS that will stop a boot without KB/Mouse.  If you can't
>set the BIOS to ignore whether they're there or not, you'll have to get a
>KVM switch that does active emulation - one that tells the PC that there is
>a keyboard and mouse present even when it's switched to another console.
>More expensive.
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