Re: problems booting OpenBSD without keyboard

[chuck yerkes <chuck@snew.com>]

Noone has said, such, but I'm presuming i386 since my sparcs
use TTYA when there's no keyboard, and the Alpha and MIPS have
to be told to use a head explicitly.

This whole issue revolves around your PC's BIOS.  options:
1) don't use a PC, the question becomes moot.
2) ensure that you can boot SOMETHING without a keyboard to
   be positive it's a BIOS issue.
3) Check out the Mobo's with the Intel "Emergency Management Port"
   This is a serial console that lets you get BIOS from serial,
   I'm told (like a real computer).
4) if you're sure it's a OS problem, post a bunch of information,
   like your BIOS settings.  The time spent writing them down
   by hand will be worth it when they get munched in some accident
   (then see option 1).  Then people can give specific solutions.

Quoting Jill Lundquist (jill@chezns.org):
> 
> >On Mon Sep 04 at 10:54:39 AM, Hector A. Paterno wrote:
> >
> >> HI , Im trying to boot openbsd without a keyboard, I change enable/disable
> >> keyboard option in Bios setup , but when the openbsd try to start halt in
> >> reading boot..  step ( the first step on boot ).
> >
> >I know it's not helpful, but I have this problem too. I keep putting off
> >buying another keyboard for that box, since it would never be used except to
> >make reboots work. But it's definitely a pain to have to temporarily move a
> >keyboard every time I need to reboot the system...
> 
> I have been planning to set up some openbsd systems in a rack in a 
> colocated site, where having keyboards on the systems for booting
> is simply not an option.  How do other admins handle this situation?
> 
> I would like to have a console server, which must hang off the serial
> and keyboard ports in such a way that the machine can think that it's
> connected to a keyboard, but I don't have that at the moment.