Re: [tlug] Linux init 0 by powerbutton

[David Santinoli <u235@example.com>]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 04:09:43AM +0200, Martin Bähr wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 01:50:05PM +0900, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
> > you will need at least a keyboard...computers nowadays want a
> > keyboard and a graphiccard to boot up
> 
> uhm, not really. recent machines should all have the option to boot
> even if the keyboard is missing.
> 
> the bios for the ones we have here (new from a few months ago) offers
> to ignore keybord, floppy, disk or even any error

I've seen that feature around since circa 1994, at least on Award
BIOSes.

Cheers,
 David
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