Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 145216
booting fails without keyboard
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:15:38 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Asus pundit computer.. bios is set to boot without keyboard so it gets past bios checks but freezes during bootup in fedora core 3 if no keyboard is attached... Boots fine without a monitor however... here is info on the kernel Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) Kernel 2.6.9-1.667 on an i686 login: cannot find any info on if there is something I need to do to enable this... thanks Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.9-1.667 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.remove keyboard 2.reboot machine ie shutdown -r 0 or power cycle 3. Actual Results: freezes up during the boot process left it for 1/2 hour no go. Expected Results: completes boot cycle Additional info:
upgraded to latest kernel same problem i.e. Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) Kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 on an i686 login:
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
This bug has been automatically closed as part of a mass update. It had been in NEEDINFO state since July 2005. If this bug still exists in current errata kernels, please reopen this bug. There are a large number of inactive bugs in the database, and this is the only way to purge them. Thank you.