running a server headless/keyboardless?

[Henry Spencer]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.

If one is willing to spend money on dealing with such stupidity, there is
(or was -- haven't kept current) at least one company that sells a little
widget that plugs into a keyboard port and pretends to be a keyboard,
precisely to convince stupid BIOSes that there really is one there. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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