On 18 December 2010 20:30, Neil Greenwood <neil.greenwood....@gmail.com> wrote: > On 17 December 2010 22:24, David King <linux...@avoura.com> wrote: >> I don't know the answer to your question, but that old error message "no >> keyboard detected, press F1 to continue" is one of my old favourites >> from years ago in the old days of DOS-based 286 PCs. >> >> I still wonder why anyone thought that error message made sense when >> they put it into the BIOS. >> > > I think it's actually 2 error messages, concatenated. There's a > generic "press F1 to continue" when any error happens during the POST. > This is the BIOS option that the OP should look for, something like > "continue on error", rather than specifically looking for a keyboard > option. IIRC. It's years since I looked in the BIOS setup screen for > this problem.
That is likely true, but it does not make it any less silly that having detected that there is no keyboard it suggests using this non-existent device. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
