Re: Motherboard Quesiton
Note that many BIOSes (if not all? there must be some out there..) will not boot without
a display adapter. This doesn't mean you have to have a monitor. I built a 486 server at
home sans keyboard but I had to keep a display adapter in it. Fortunately I had a
salvaged 286 with a plain vanilla 16 color VGA adapter. Also, I found that in this
particular system I had to make a kernel modification to get the thing to boot. There
was some strange startup code which talked to the keyboard controller and which would
hang. I just commented it out and all was fine.
Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Most, if not all, newer BIOSes allow you to disable the keyboard check.
> Monitor and mouse aren't checked, so no problem there. I have a 4-year
> old 486 in my garage which I have run for months with no monitor, mouse or
> keyboard running my packet radio station and do all the access via
> ethernet. I did install a video card which makes it more convenient if I
> need to actually work on the machine, however.
>
> Bob
>
> On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Greg Vence wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > In building a cluster, I'd like a motherboard/bios that supports a LAN
> > managed system. I'm looking to not use a keyboard, monitor, or mouse
> > after the initial set-up.
> >
> > I'll be accessing these systems through the LAN by telnet etc. Do you
> > know if this is common, rare, whatever in MB's today? Who/model?
> >
> > TIA -- Greg.
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