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From: bluen@ee.uni-sb.de (Juergen Peter (aka bluen))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting with serial console
Date: 2 Aug 1996 11:56:23 GMT
Organization: Computational Linguistics Dept., U Saarbruecken
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In article <DvHJI5.4BF@gts.net>,
	bdb@GTS.Net (Bruce Becker) writes:
>In article <4tlj2d$mt2@news.hcl.com>,
>Mike Frisch <frisch@mailhub.hcl.com> wrote:
>|
>|        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?
>
Well, the answer to that one is quite simple: To disable the keyboard
*check* is not the same as to disable the keyboard *itself*.

I guess to make the latter possible would be quite a Bad Thing(TM)
to allow in a bios setup.;-)

bluen
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