On 04/ 9/11 01:24 PM, Robin Axelsson wrote: > Hi, > I just discovered that the system simply won't boot when there is no > keyboard present, all I see is a dead boot splash without the rolling > orange sausage. > > The intention of the system is to run it as a headless file server but > I had to attach a keyboard to take care of regular HTSF errors that > occurred in the BIOS. After a few BIOS updates the errors still occur > but I don't need a keyboard to reset the system and try again until > the BIOS can proceed without HTSF errors. > > I also noticed that as soon as I insert the keyboard to the PS/2 port > the orange sausage starts to roll and the system boots up, so it is as > if the system is just sitting there waiting for a keyboard to say > "Hello". > > This looks like a bug to me but is there a way to circumvent this and > still be able to use a keyboard whenever I plug one in on the PS/2 > port while it's booted up and running (X)? I guess system should boot without keyboard and if it is getting to that after starting X (sausage) that might be feature bug. And might be reported. I was always thinking about that thing as of progress or as a snake but I suppose it is a matter of perspective.
On the other hand, you probably will not log in from X on local graphics X console, so you might disable graphical gdm as service from loading and see how it behaves. $pfexec svcadm disable svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm All that, providing that BIOS on your machine allows it to even start booting without keyboard attached. Try setting Errors: None, All Errors: All, but disk/key in BIOS settings, that might do it for most normal x86 PC bioses I have seen. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
