[Gllug] getting rid of keyboard error on boot

[bradut at intelesuri.net]

Thanks everyone and apologies for not looking more closely on the net
for this.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:05:11AM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, bradut wrote:
> 
> > Also, is there a way to get rid of this keyboard error, to make a machine
> > start without a keyboard attached ?
> This is a BIOS setting.
> 
> Actually, I used to work with some old Compaq desktops which
> wouldn't boot without a keyboard. The fix here is to keep
> some old broken keyboards, and take the electronic gus out of 'em.

Old Compaq's is exactly what I'm talking about here....;)

> 
> But any modern machine should have this as a BIOS setting -
> something like 'Stop on all but keyboard'
> 
> Important for clusters of course!
> 
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