Re: [Sheflug] headless

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] btinternet.com>]

* Ian Wright (Ian [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk) wrote:
> Thanks Jim, and everyone else.
> 
> >
> > Disconnect the keyboard - no problem. Only problem there maybe is on a
> reboot.
> > You may have to go into your BIOS settings and set ignore keyboard or
> similar,
> > otherwise it might object and not boot.
> 
> This has puzzled me a bit - if you tell the BIOS not to recognise a
> keyboard, how can you ever tell it to see one again - presumably you need to
> use the keyboard (which it doesn't see) to do this? Or does the keyboard
> still work until the machine has booted up?

You dont tell the bios not to recognise the keyboard.

You tell it not to stop booting when one isnt there.

If you unplug your keyboard and try and boot, you get the stupidest
error message ever (IMHO).

something along the lines of "Keyboard error, or no keyboard found,
press F1 to continue"

all you do is tell the bios to carry on booting instead of stopping,
when it doesnt find the keyboard
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