running a server headless/keyboardless?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:44:51PM -0400, Aaron Vegh wrote:
> Hi there,
> I have a Compaq Deskpro (Celeron 500) running as my home server. I've
> lately been running it headless -- no monitor, no keyboard or mouse --
> and shelling in to do any maintenance. Since it's been up for weeks, I
> haven't thought twice about it, till tonight when we had a power
> failure. That's when I realized that the box won't reboot unless it's
> got a keyboard plugged in.
> 
> is there a way to disable that requirement, in the BIOS, for example?

On many machines there is.  Usually called 'stop on errors' (set to
none), or keyboardless operation, or something like that.  Some dumb
desktop machines from some stupid name brand companies don't allow it
though, and a few stupid servers have even not allowed it in the past.

Lennart Sorensen
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