Question related to FreeBSD Serial Console...

[Bob Bishop]

Hi,

At 00:36 2/9/03, Nicole wrote:

>  *SIGH*
>  No what I want is NO serial console. DO NOT FOR ANY REASON turn off/not resp
>ond to the keyboard port

Unfortunately, many motherboards (BIOSs?) won't initialise a PS/2 keyboard 
interface unless a keyboard is connected at boot time, so if you plug in a 
keyboard subsequently it won't work. Nothing the OS can do in this case (I 
believe), and yes it's a PITA.

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