Hi, I'm running CentOS 3 on a Dell celeron 500/256 MB. It won't boot without a keyboard and that is a problem for me. I know it is not a perfect setup, but I'd like to have it boot w/o a keyboard. The Bios doesn't seem to care too much about the fact that no keyboard is plugged in, as it loads Grub and starts booting the kernel. It hangs, usually around Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 Any ideas? Thanks, -- Ugo -> Please don't send a copy of your reply by e-mail. I read the list. -> Please avoid top-posting, long signatures and HTML, and cut the irrelevant parts in your replies.
some dells can be set to ignore keyboard errors int he bios. He you tried this? Ugo Bellavance wrote:> Hi, > > I'm running CentOS 3 on a Dell celeron 500/256 MB. It won't boot > without a keyboard and that is a problem for me. I know it is not a > perfect setup, but I'd like to have it boot w/o a keyboard. The Bios > doesn't seem to care too much about the fact that no keyboard is plugged > in, as it loads Grub and starts booting the kernel. It hangs, usually > around > > Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 > > Any ideas? > > Thanks,-- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -- carpe ductum -- "Grab the tape" CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician) Linux user #322099 Machines: 206822 256638 276825 http://counter.li.org/
On 7/22/05, Ugo Bellavance <ugob at camo-route.com> wrote:> Hi, > > I'm running CentOS 3 on a Dell celeron 500/256 MB. It won't boot > without a keyboard and that is a problem for me. I know it is not a > perfect setup, but I'd like to have it boot w/o a keyboard. The Bios > doesn't seem to care too much about the fact that no keyboard is plugged > in, as it loads Grub and starts booting the kernel. It hangs, usually > around > > Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 > > Any ideas? > > Thanks,I ran in to this same issue on some Intel 810 mother boards, the BIOS was setup to ignore keyboard errors so it would start booting centos, and the kernel would hang in the same place. I fixed this by adding the "apm=off" kernel parameter in the grub.conf file. My fix was to add "apm=off" to the end of each kernel line in the grub.conf file like this: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL ro root=LABEL=/ apm=off