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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!act.news.telstra.net!testpattern.telstra.net!usenet From: Wayne Farmer <wayne@telstra.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Unexpected problems booting w/o keyboard Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 15:06:24 +1000 Organization: Telstra Internet Lines: 22 Message-ID: <31D0C550.41C67EA6@telstra.net> References: <4qpuob$9l@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pizza.telstra.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) david langhorst wrote: > > i'm running freeBSD on a couple of machines and have come across a interesting > problem. when booting without a keyboard on both machines, the machine > grinds to a halt while probing the ISA bus. furthermore, one of the two > machines has an identical problem if you don't press some sort of key > while it's delayed at the 'Boot:' prompt. > > the machines have no identical components in them, which leads me to > believe that it's a software problem. > > if anyone else has experienced similar woes, email me and i/we can start > working on a solution. if you have a solution, all the better! > > -- > David Langhorst (dirt@umich.edu) - Univ. of Michigan ITD GPCC UNIX Services I think you'll find that if you rip into the BIOS setup and set keyboard to "not present", it will work fine. BTW the keyboard still works just is not checked as part of the BIOS startup routine - works for me. Wayne