On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:35:09PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > BIOS. Some BIOS' (notably the older Compaq's) halt on Boot if it can't ... > I looked for these in the past and I don't recall finding anything (or > if I did it was above my budget). Your options are rather limited if > your BIOS errors with no keyboard installed: > > 1) Purchase a $5 keyboard at the store, plug it in, boot, leave > the keyboard plugged in and walk off. > 2) Bring a keyboard, plug it in, boot, remove the keyboard (but > hopefully you have a UPS).
I heard on this list that this may cause hardware damage. I had several accident of unplugging KB and no problem afterward. (I was not on Compaq but generic MB) > 3) There are little devices ($50?) that allow you to hook up > more than one machine to one monitor, one keyboard, and one mouse - > you select which one you want to use with a button on the > device. Use it. Just curios, if pluging PS2 mouse will do or not. That is chaper and space efficient. :) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D Visit Debian reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/ There are 6 files: index.{en|fr|it}.html quick-reference.{en|fr|it}.txt I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections.
