GRUB Boot Fails on P3 without Keyboard
Scott Sharkey
ssharkey at linuxunlimited.com
Fri Oct 1 15:31:48 UTC 2004
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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