Nick Rout wrote:
My headless boxes (running linux of course) in the computer cabinet will
not boot without a keyboard (Press f1 to continue D'ohhh)
No bios option to ignore the lack of keyboard.
As there are now two, soon to be three of them it is a pain to store
three keyboards in the cupboard, they add to the mess of wires and are
just a pain, particulalrly when one falls on top of another and sticks a
key down *sigh*
I saw something once about how to wire some resistors to a ps/2 plug to
fool the computer into thinking there was a keyboard there. However
google lets me down.
Clues anyone?
Only option I have found that works with Compaq boxes which REQUIRE a
keyboard to boot and this cannot be disabled in the BIOS is to open up
an old keyboard and remove the small circuit board that connects to the
PS2 lead (keeping the PS2 lead intact and removing the wires going to
the keyboard). Plug this into the keyboard port and hide it somewhere
inside the case of the machine running the lead thru an expansion slot
cover.
I have had this setup on a firewall machine for years with no issues,
the only "gotcha" is to ensure that the circuitboard does not earth to
the case buy taping a bit of cardboard or something to it to stop and
shorts to case ground.
