[lug] 'No keyboard attached, press F1 to continue' need advice/help SOLVED

[hugh at math.byu.edu]

> SOLVED (for me)
>
> I made an exhaustive search of the bios menu tree.
> Under a heading "Halt conditions" which I had taken
> to mean stuff to do with whether or not power is
> turned off when CPU is about to enter HALT state,
> there is was: a setting "all, except keyboard"
>
> Now I have to do careful research on what each setting
> really does, so I can set up headless correctly.
> Relying on obvious meaning of words is obviously not
> good enough.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Paul E Condon
> pecondon at mesanetworks.net

Another halt condition I have seen is the absence of a video card (which
may or may not apply in your case).  When I was dealing with this, I had a
motherboard with a serial port.  I set up a getty on the serial port and
then set the bios to halt on no errors.

Hugh

Hugh