Is it a way to get around this?

I got a Epia M10k..

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Rasmus

never used one of those motherboards, but most bios will have a halt on ? errors part in the first screen. set that to all but keyboard, or whatever that option is.

Its not the Bios that is the problem, the kernel stops just after:

pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured

R.

Cannot thing of anything off hand at the moment(I really need more than an hour of sleep before working the graveyard.)... This is odd since I've booted many times w/o a keyboard.

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cesman

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I had the same problem yesterday - I changed the setting in the BIOS, and it got past the POST screens.

It failed during booting of linux - straight after it displayed a message about the floppy drive if I remember correctly.

I re-connected the keyboard and it was fine again.

I'm running an Aopen AX3SP mobo if that helps nail it down.....

I don't have a keyboard plugged into my system and it boots up fine, i just had to make the one change in the bios to not hault on keyboard errors

Strange...

I've set the bios to halt on no errors..

R.

This is a long shot, but just the only thing I could think of some bios have a option for usb keyboard. maybe if you disable that it won't look for the keyboard? Like I said just kind of a shot in the dark.

Nothing works - seems like I just have to live with it....

Thanks for trying to help me!

R.

Does anyone have an update on this issue? It would nice to be able to boot knoppmyth on my system without a keyboard. Thanks.

I would like to see a solution as well. My box also stops at this "pty..." line.
Worst case would be to buy the cheapest keyboard, take the guts out of the plastics and put the electronics in the box.

No solution I'm aware of... I have a MythTV boxens and both boot fine w/o a keyboard. NOTE:Unless I'm testing a new version or feature, I run the same version of KnoppMyth as is released. No tweaks.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I have the same issue (EPIA M10000, Nehemiah 1GHz core...), which occurs when I'm trying to use a USB kb.

I also have no floppy, and the *next* line in the dmesg/syslog is that the kernel found no floppy device on boot.

Interesting. can anyone tell me how to turn on ludicrous levels (TM) of debugging for the kernel on boot?

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I am having the problem as well, with an Asus P4R800 V Deluxe motherboard. I disabled the halt on keyboard errors in the BIOS, and didn't see any BIOS options for USB keyboards.

Brad

Same situation here...

Abit -AN7 board - set so the bios doesn't hang it, but the kernel fails at after the PTY line. a USB keyboard doesn't seem to cut it either... has to be a PS/2 type to make the kernel happy... not sure why that fails, and don't really see anything in the logs.

Any idea's?