Re: forgot root password on head- and keyboardless machine *blush*
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:05:27PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
| > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 19:19:34 +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
| > > I know that this is a solution but I don't have a
| > > keyboard. I have a screen I could use, but I really don't
| > > want to buy a new keyboard just to do this... (my
| > > friends all have ps/2 keyboards, whilst my machine
| > > uses the old din-style).
| >
| > Even if you HAD a keyboard that fits you would SURELY
| > kill your machine by hot-plugging it in (smash the
| > keyboard-controller's fuse, if it has one, or even blow the
| > controller itself.)
|
| This is a valid concern with PS/2 keyboards, but I think it
| may not be as much of an issue with the 'old-style' AT
| connections.
The only problem I've seen so far is Windows not recognizing the
keyboard when it is plugged back in. It totally screwed up my system
when I was dual booting with loadlin from config.sys but had no
default selected.
I'm pretty sure Linux can see keyboards and mice if they are plugged
in after they get bumped out of the socket.
-D
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