[Discuss] booting without keyboard, mouse, or monitor

[DR]

Some BIOSs will complain and stop if the keyboard is not there.  You 
need to change the settings to tell it not to worry.

Deid


Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> I know booting without keyboard, mouse, or monitor is possible, but do you
> have to do anything special to make it work (assuming you have grub set up
> to boot after a few seconds)?  For example, is there some BIOS parameter
> and/or kernel boot parameter you have to set?
> 
> I am interested in this topic because my new system just arrived, and I now
> have three systems with two sets of keyboards, mice, and monitors, and 
> while
> installing Linux on the new system I need the other two old systems to be
> booted as a temporary measure as I copy files off them, etc.
> 
> Alan
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