Re: Keyboard Boot Disable

2006-04-26 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:27:53PM -0400 I heard the voice of Lucas Holt, and lo! it spake thus: I worked with someone once that said they blew out the ps/2 port on the motherboard. I've seen this happen several times. Some boards were later revived by judicious use of a soldering iron, but

Re: Keyboard Boot Disable

2006-04-26 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:27:53PM -0400, Lucas Holt wrote: I worked with someone once that said they blew out the ps/2 port on the motherboard. As an alternative, maybe you could consider a kvm switch? Maybe on an ancient motherboard?? Most motherboards have overvoltage/overcurrent

Keyboard Boot Disable

2006-04-25 Thread Cole
Hi. I have a large amount of servers, and the problem is, that when I need to plug a keyboard into them, the keyboard is disabled since they werent booted with a keyboard. I was wondering if anyone has some idea of how to disable the keyboard probe at boot and make it so that the OS thinks

Re: Keyboard Boot Disable

2006-04-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:10:55PM +0200, Cole wrote: Hi. I have a large amount of servers, and the problem is, that when I need to plug a keyboard into them, the keyboard is disabled since they werent booted with a keyboard. I was wondering if anyone has some idea of how to disable the

RE: Keyboard Boot Disable

2006-04-25 Thread Cole
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:13 PM To: Cole Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard Boot Disable On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:10:55PM +0200, Cole wrote: Hi. I have a large amount of servers, and the problem is, that when I need to plug a keyboard into them

Re: Keyboard Boot Disable

2006-04-25 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 16:10, Cole wrote: Hi. I have a large amount of servers, and the problem is, that when I need to plug a keyboard into them, the keyboard is disabled since they werent booted with a keyboard. I was wondering if anyone has some idea of how to disable the keyboard

Re: Keyboard Boot Disable

2006-04-25 Thread Brooks Davis
: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:13 PM To: Cole Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard Boot Disable On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:10:55PM +0200, Cole wrote: Hi. I have a large amount of servers, and the problem is, that when I need to plug a keyboard into them, the keyboard

RE: Keyboard Boot Disable

2006-04-25 Thread Cole
Subject: Re: Keyboard Boot Disable On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:22:01PM +0200, Cole wrote: I realised I forgot the version after I mailed. Im speaking about FreeBSD 4.11. Also by blowing the machine up, what exactly do you mean? You end up blowing the motherboard? Or the keyboard? Or specifically

Re: Keyboard Boot Disable

2006-04-25 Thread Lucas Holt
: Re: Keyboard Boot Disable On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:10:55PM +0200, Cole wrote: Hi. I have a large amount of servers, and the problem is, that when I need to plug a keyboard into them, the keyboard is disabled since they werent booted with a keyboard. I was wondering if anyone has some idea