Re: AlphaBios 5.66: LX now auto-booting without keyboard attached!

["Stephen J. Gaudet" <sjg dcginc com>]

Hello Andreas

>This is just FYI: I upgraded AlphaBios on a LX from version 5.62-1a to
>5.66 and now the system is auto-booting, even without a PS/2 keyboard 
>attached! This is great, as it means I can now install AlphaBios based
>Linux-Servers "headless", and I was asking for this feature for about
>12 months now... :-))
>
>Thanks to everyone who convinced the AlphaBios team in adding this
>very basic feature!!

It is a great feature but...it has no serial control via com1.  Which means
you can set it to count down and boot headless. However, can't stop it or
make any changes via console.  Good but, still needs work.

Cheers,



Steve
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