On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 07:58:44AM -0500, DaLe aTchiSon wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Go into BIOS SETUP. At the bottom of the first page where
> it says "Halt On..." change the selection to "No Errors".
> Or, if the choices are "Keyboard Installed" and "Keyboard
> Not Installed", make sure it says "Not Installed". Don't
> know if that will help, but it's all I know on the subject.
>
That setting prevents a PC from booting at all if the keyboard is
absent. In my case, it goes through the POST fine and begins the boot
process from diskette. Part way through uncompressing one of the
component files, it stops. Incidentally, if I plug in the keyboard at
some point in there, it will continue with the boot process.
Paul
> DaLe
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul M Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
> To: "SLUG List" <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 3:35 AM
> Subject: [SLUG] 486's and keyboards
>
>
> > Okay all you geezers out there.... I've got a 486 that
> I've been using
> > as a firewall. I'm trying to make it "headless", but when
> I remove the
> > keyboard and try to boot, it won't get all the way through
> boot. It does
> > the POST okay, and attempts to boot from the floppy, but
> won't finish
> > booting. I've performed the test four times, twice with
> keyboard and
> > twice without. Results are uniform.
> >
> > Now, it seems like I recall from a past life that old PCs
> used one of
> > the keyboard lines to manage memory or somesuch. Seems
> like I remember
> > something like an "A20" error or something like that.
> >
> > Anyone remember this, and am I on the right track?
> >
> > Paul
>
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