Keyboard Boot Disable

[Cole]

Hi.

I realised I forgot the version after I mailed. Im speaking about FreeBSD 4.11. Also by blowing the
machine up, what exactly do you mean? You end up blowing the motherboard? Or the keyboard? Or
specifically what?

Regards
/Cole 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brooks Davis [mailto:brooks at one-eyed-alien.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 10:13 PM
To: Cole
Cc: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Keyboard Boot Disable

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:10:55PM +0200, Cole wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have a large amount of servers, and the problem is, that when I need
> to plug a keyboard into them, the keyboard is disabled since they
> werent booted with a keyboard.
>
> I was wondering if anyone has some idea of how to disable the keyboard
> probe at boot and make it so that the OS thinks that the keyboard is
> present even if its not plugged in, so that a keyboard can be plugged
> in at any stage, and will function normally.
>
> Im speaking specifically for ps2 keyboards. Is this even possible, or
> are there architecture problems or something else relating to this
> that would make this impossible?
>
> If this is possible, could someone please point me in the correct
> direction as to which code I would need to look at to make this
> possible?

What version of FreeBSD are you running?  This hasn't been the case by
default for ages.  As a warning, PS2 keyboards are not electricaly
designed to be hotplug so you may blow your machine up by doing this
(says someone who does it all the time).

-- Brooks