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Disable keyboard on Deskpro 4000n
Anybody managed to get the machine booting without a keyboard attached?
I'd like to use this tiny little box for under LINUX for routing and fileserver, but couldn't get around the "no keyboard press F1 to continue" message. I can't find any according switch in the setup, like ordinary machines have "halt on no errors" in BIOS. Gereon Wenzel |
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Dunno if that's possible with a Compaq. What about hooking up a mini PS2
keyboard? HH "Gereon Wenzel" wrote in message ... Anybody managed to get the machine booting without a keyboard attached? I'd like to use this tiny little box for under LINUX for routing and fileserver, but couldn't get around the "no keyboard press F1 to continue" message. I can't find any according switch in the setup, like ordinary machines have "halt on no errors" in BIOS. Gereon Wenzel |
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I don't know this particular machine, but try setting a BIOS password and
then see if there's an server mode option. "Gereon Wenzel" wrote in message ... Anybody managed to get the machine booting without a keyboard attached? I'd like to use this tiny little box for under LINUX for routing and fileserver, but couldn't get around the "no keyboard press F1 to continue" message. I can't find any according switch in the setup, like ordinary machines have "halt on no errors" in BIOS. Gereon Wenzel |
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HH schrieb:
Dunno if that's possible with a Compaq. What about hooking up a mini PS2 keyboard? HH Allready thought about using just a keyboard PCB in a small plastic box, to make the machine believe one is attached? Can get some free broken keyboards from work. I will try the other suggestion first. Gereon |
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I used to work for a company that had a number of what we called "Dummy
Loads" that plugged in as KVMs. Machines ran proprietary applications that left the onsite user with only one option in case of a system problem, "Power cycle the BRB". Don't know where they came from, but they were obviously commercially produced. Perhaps one of the other posters might be able to give us all a line on where to find these. KC PS company has been sold and all of the old techs are gone. new guys say they've never heard of them. "Gereon Wenzel" wrote in message ... Anybody managed to get the machine booting without a keyboard attached? I'd like to use this tiny little box for under LINUX for routing and fileserver, but couldn't get around the "no keyboard press F1 to continue" message. I can't find any according switch in the setup, like ordinary machines have "halt on no errors" in BIOS. Gereon Wenzel |
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