Subject: Re: headless PeeSea
To: None <windsor@pobox.com>
From: Hellmuth Michaelis <hm@hcs.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/06/1995 09:36:58
>From the keyboard of Rob Windsor:
> >> I'm putting together a headless PC (well, it's running already), but I
> >> need to figure out how to tell the kernel to ignore the missing keyboard.
>
> >> Currently, it gets to the kernel loading and the kernel demands to see
> >> the keyboard before it continues. The BIOS itself doesn't care (yay!).
> No, actually, it's not that. At about the same location, it blurbs
> "Plug In Keyboard", "Missing Keyboard", "Cannot Read From Keyboard", or
> something similiar.
>
> Ugh, I forgot to mention that I'm using pcvt (the one that's incorporated
> in -current).
The pcvt in -current should/MUST(!)/does timeout at boot time when no key-
board is attached to the system (at least it does it under NetBSD 1.0).
Since i have not running -current someone should have a look and fix it in
case it is broken for -current.
hellmuth
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