[Gllug] getting rid of keyboard error on boot

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst bradut announce to the hordes:
> 
> I am setting up another box, but I don't want to put another keyboard as
> I connect to it via ssh. The way I did it was to boot the machine up
> while a keyboard is connected (because otherwise it gave me a 'keyboard
> error') and then disconnected it. Could this be a problem ?

Yes
It could. It's not as risky as the old AT motherboards (assuming it's an
atx), but there is still a risk.

> Also, is there a way to get rid of this keyboard error, to make a machine
> start without a keyboard attached ?

Just go into the bios and change halt on errors from "all" or "keyboard and
floppy" to "none"

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