Thanks everyone for your responses, I have tried a lot but it still doesn't work. I have tried to change settings in the BIOS, I changed the boot loader from GRUB to LILO and it still hangs exactly when it starts to boot the kernel.
...... However, I am still trying... Best regards Reza -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Willem Brown Sent: den 6 december 2002 12:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why does RH8.0 server not start without Mouse and Keybourd connected to the system? Reza Rahimi wrote: > Dear all, > > When I disconnect the mouse and the keyboard cords from the server, the > server does not start. The boot process passes GRUB boot loader. Exactly > when boot loader passes I can see a few lines of text and then the system > freezes. The last message I can see is something like "Extracting > RedHat....Loading ...." > > > > Is there anyone who can guide me to fix that problem. > > Thanks > > > > > I had a similar problem on RH 7.2. Try disabling APM in the BIOS and pass the "apm=off" argument to the kernel. The relevant lines in /etc/grub.conf looks like the following: title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-18.7.x) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.7.x ro root=/dev/hda5 apm=off initrd /initrd-2.4.18-18.7.x.img HTH Best Regards Willem Brown -- iServe (Pty) Ltd. http://www.iserve.co.za/ Tel: +27 (0)11 258-7800 Fax: +27 (0)11 258-7888 Cell: +27 (0)83 271-0839 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list