running a server headless/keyboardless?

[William Park]

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?

Retail motherboard usually has BIOS option to disregard any/all errors
on boot.  But, brand-name machines... depends on the makes.

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William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>
Open Geometry Consulting, Toronto, Canada
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