Re: Looking for more Debian packages
Hello
Jianan Huang (<huangjianan1@hotmail.com>) wrote:
> More about the BIOS. In DOS machine, hardware diagnostics and
> initialization is done by the BIOS.
And this is done before the operating system is loaded. Which means that
it is done by the BIOS, independent of if Linux or DOS is installed on
the computer.
> For instance, if the keyboard or
> mouse is not plugged in, the diagnostic will detect this and the
> system will not proceed beyond this point until the error is
> corrected.
Unless of course set the BIOS to ignore these errors and start anyway.
> If a user wants a set-up without keyboard or mouse, he will
> have to twig the BIOS. Without source code, and means to recompile,
> this is impossible.
It is not. Most (all?) standard PC BIOSes allow you to change this
setting. Look you for something like "Halt on erros: all" and see if
you can change it to "Halt on errors: all but keyboard and mouse".
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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