[syslinux] Making Syslinux boot with missing keyboard, but not disabled keyboard.

[Seth Kurtzberg]

This would be quite useful to several projects that I'm working on.  I must 
point out, however, that one can buy a used keyboard for $2.00.

On Thursday 06 June 2002 06:40 pm, you wrote:
> Hello together,
>
> first thanks a lot for your work. It's quite useful on some projects. I
> encouraged myself to ask you a question:
>
> Think I've seen Syslinux booting fli4l on Systems without keyboard,
> where "keyboard option" has been set to "not installed" in the Bios.
> There are lot of boards around, e.g. with award bios like those 486 UMC
> based on UMC 8881/8886, without this Bios option. Syslinux starts
> booting on these machines, if Bios is set to "Ignore all Errors" or
> "Ignore all Errors but keyboard". This is recommended by the Award Bios
> docs and the manual (if present).
>
> But Syslinux hangs while booting fli4l after loading the root.fs after
> having displayed the third dot.
>
> Is it possible, to enable all these machines booting without keyboard?
>
> I don't know, if that's an A20 gate problem, perhaps Syslinux thinks,
> there is a keyboard, cause it has been started by Bios and Bios perhaps
> tells Syslinux there is a keyboard.
> A timeout could help. Or an option in syslinux.cfg or an option passed
> to Syslinux while writing the floppy.
>
> This would help a lot of people of all these Linux Router Projects,
> using 486 or older hardware and having to destroy a keyboard (AT
> Keyboards get rare) with a hammer, just to get this chip out of the
> keyboard and have it connected to the keyboard connector.
>
> I would appreciate pretty much a short notice, what you think is the
> problem, and if or how I can help and if you want to care about this.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Michael
>
> mailto:info at michael-knaus.de
>
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