[Uaflug] ASUAF server back up!

[Kent Overstreet]

KVMs ftw!

Seems like most bioses at least provide an option for skipping the
keyboard check, and with usb keyboards there's no risk of killing your
ps2 port, so sounds like a good idea to me.

On 1/2/07, Orion Sky Lawlor <olawlor at acm.org> wrote:
> I finally got into Chapman 205 and was able to get the ASUAF
> server running again.  The tab key seemed to be wedged down
> since the keyboard was tucked under the monitor, so the
> machine had stopped at bootup with:
>
>         Stuck key 0013
>         F1 Continue   F2 Setup
>
> This isn't quite as ironic as "Keyboard not found.  Press
> F1 to continue", but why does BIOS even bother to check for
> this sort of silly stuff?  On a server, a hung boot is *way*
> worse than 10,000 login attempts by user
> 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
>
> What do you guys do with the keyboards on your servers?
> I'm thinking about leaving them unplugged except when really
> needed--as long as the BIOS doesn't freak out about *that*!
> --
>                                    -Orion Sky Lawlor
>
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