Re: GRUB Boot Fails on P3 without Keyboard

From: Scott Sharkey (ssharkey_at_linuxunlimited.com)
Date: 10/01/04

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    At 08:18 AM 10/1/2004, you wrote:
    >
    > My RH9 P3 systems fail to boot GRUB while the P4 systems boot without any
    > problems. When the P3 tries to boot, it hangs before the RedHat Linux
    > interactive setup at a line that says "apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03
    > (Driver version 1.16)". If a keyboard is attached to the P3, it will
    > boot
    > without issues but the system must boot without a keyboard. The P3 will
    > boot LILO without a keyboard attached. Any idea how to get GRUB to boot
    > without a keyboard on the P3's?

    This is a known problem with some motherboard/bios combinations. What
    you need to do is turn off APM in the kernel. Modify all of the kernel
    lines in grub.conf to add apm=off, like so:

    > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-30.9smp ro root=LABEL=/ apm=off

    -Scott 

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