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

[Andreas Haumer <andreas xss co at>]

Hi!

Stephen J. Gaudet wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Are you sure?

I just tried it with a serial terminal connected to COM1 (9600, 8N1),
and it worked fine! I even could enter setup, change some parameters, 
display CMOS configuration, and so on.
_And_ it auto-boots _without_ manual interaction after the timeout-
value specified in the CMOS setup, just as I'd expected!

I tried this on both LX and SX machines, and it works fine on both 
systems! I can't say anything against it...

- andreas

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