Note that many BIOSes (if not all? there must be some out there..) will not boot without a display adapter. This doesn't mean you have to have a monitor. I built a 486 server at home sans keyboard but I had to keep a display adapter in it. Fortunately I had a salvaged 286 with a plain vanilla 16 color VGA adapter. Also, I found that in this particular system I had to make a kernel modification to get the thing to boot. There was some strange startup code which talked to the keyboard controller and which would hang. I just commented it out and all was fine.
Bob Nielsen wrote: > Most, if not all, newer BIOSes allow you to disable the keyboard check. > Monitor and mouse aren't checked, so no problem there. I have a 4-year > old 486 in my garage which I have run for months with no monitor, mouse or > keyboard running my packet radio station and do all the access via > ethernet. I did install a video card which makes it more convenient if I > need to actually work on the machine, however. > > Bob > > On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Greg Vence wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > In building a cluster, I'd like a motherboard/bios that supports a LAN > > managed system. I'm looking to not use a keyboard, monitor, or mouse > > after the initial set-up. > > > > I'll be accessing these systems through the LAN by telnet etc. Do you > > know if this is common, rare, whatever in MB's today? Who/model? > > > > TIA -- Greg. > > -- > > What do you want to spend today? > > Debian GNU/Linux (Free for an UNLIMITED time) > > http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html > > Greg Vence KH2EA/4 > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > ---- > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
