[Nottingham] Re: Booting Headless

James Gibbon jg at jamesgibbon.com
Fri Aug 19 12:25:57 BST 2005


On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:44:20 +0100
Robert Hart <enxrah at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 10:48 +0100, James Gibbon wrote:
> 
> > One thought though - don't you at least need a keyboard (or keyboard
> > dongle) to be plugged in to boot a PC in the first place?
> 
> There used to be a time when you'd get a message that said:
> Keyboard Error, Press F1 to resume
> 
> but I think most PCs now either do the right thing by default, or can at
> least be configured to do the right in the BIOS. Either way you only
> need to boot it once right?

That depends really .. I like to perform a hygiene reboot every couple of
weeks personally.


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