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From: bdb@GTS.Net (Bruce Becker)
Subject: Re: Booting with serial console
Message-ID: <DvHJI5.4BF@GTS.Net>
Organization: G.T.S., Toronto, Ontario
References: <9607260941.aa11195@office.demon.net> <4ticuk$4qo@innocence.interface-business.de> <DvBvx0.87J@GTS.Net> <4tlj2d$mt2@news.hcl.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 00:46:53 GMT
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In article <4tlj2d$mt2@news.hcl.com>,
Mike Frisch <frisch@mailhub.hcl.com> wrote:
|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.


	so once it's disabled, by what means can it be
	turned on again?


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