Booting without keyboard.

[Manuel Rabade (MiG)]

Some years ago I worked as technical service, and i see al least 2 machines with
the keyboard port "burned" because of this :-P, but also i know about too many
people that do it and nothing happens ... but i like to do it :-P.

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:05:10AM +0200, Ph. Schulz wrote:
> >I've read (although never actually seen myself - so take this with as large
> >a grain of salt as you like) that hotplugging PS/2 peripherals can damage
> >the port you're plugging them into, so I'd be wary about doing this.
> 
>  This is what I've heard, too, but I've never seen a PS/2 port being 
> damaged from 'hot plugging' either. However, I've seen it quite a few 
> times that unplugging and replugging the mouse or the keyboard leaves 
> the device not working afterwards. I've seen this under FreeBSD as well 
> as under (I hate to admit it, but it's the PC at work) Windows NT4 and 
> 2000. I've read a magazine article once which said that this is not the 
> OS's responsibility but the hardware (keyboard or mouse) itself crashing.
>  So regardless if hot-plugging the keyboard works or not, if you plan 
> to do this several times a day, you might want to thing about getting a 
> KVM switch.
> 
> 	Phil.
> 
> 
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