- To: sonia@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] headless servers
- From: Jeremy Visser <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:52:10 +1100
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On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 10:35 -0600, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 23:54 +1100, Bruce Bruen wrote:
> > This is a typical Compaq ATX board (and by that I dont mean typical). Anyone
> > got any good ideas?
>
> If what you're trying to achieve is booting a machine without an
> attached keyboard, many BIOS's allow you to boot and "ignore errors".
...and many can't, especially the Compaqs, which is what the GP has. I
had a Compaq DeskPro as my web server for about a year, and everytime I
power cycled it, I had to dig up a dusty old PS/2 keyboard in order to
get it to boot.
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