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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news1.ucsd.edu!nothing.ucsd.edu!brian From: brian@nothing.ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: BSDI booting without a keyboard Date: 21 Dec 1995 23:23:34 GMT Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4bcq9n$n9@news2.ucsd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nothing.ucsd.edu I have a bunch of BSDI systems that share a keyboard and monitor via a switchbox. Most of these do not have any serial ports. By putting -console kbd into /etc/boot.default, I've been able to get them to boot reliably even when the keyboard is switched off to another system. However, once they've done that, switching the keyboard back doesn't work - it's completely ignored. It appears (in /sys/i386/isa/pccons.c) that the keyboard gets configured whether it responds or not, so I don't quite know what's going on here. I note that in booting MSDOS, the keyboard can be detached at boot time and reattached later, and it will work properly, so it's not a hardware problem. Flags=1 on the console device to bypas the keyboard controller reset at boot time doesn't help. Suggestions? - Brian