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From: frisch@mailhub.hcl.com (Mike Frisch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting with serial console
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 96 18:08:02 GMT
Organization: Hummingbird Communications Ltd
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In article <DvBvx0.87J@GTS.Net>, bdb@GTS.Net (Bruce Becker) wrote:
>        I'm not surprised to hear that - some BIOS implementations are
>        fairly finicky about the keyboard, sometimes hilariously so:

        On most of the recent AWARD BIOS, it's possible to disable the 
keyboard check on boot.

Mike.

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Mike Frisch                                        (416) 496-2200 Ext. 2272
Software Engineer
Hummingbird Communications Ltd.                 North York, Ontario, Canada

	    Disclaimer: I speak for myself, not my employer