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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 03:53 AM EDT |
I suspect it would also be pretty inconvenient for any blind user, who would
presumably need to be pre-warned with the appropriate key press(es) to get hir
machine to boot. That is, unless the pre-bootloader manages to include some kind
of sound driver. I know there is software available to play sound files through
the standard PC beeper (if present), so that might be an option, though when I
tried it the quality varied enourmously between machines. I suppose beeping in
Morse code might work.
That said, as a partial solution to a poorly-manufactured problem, I do think
it's a lot better than nothing.
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| Authored by: jesse on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 09:48 AM EDT |
As all you need is a dummy keyboard...
for the PS2 connector it could just be a resistor or two to indicate a
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 12 2012 @ 02:59 PM EDT |
> Very inconvenient for unattended machines, servers and embedded systems.
Then turn off Secure Boot in the UEFI.
> Should have done this years ago to deal with "Keyboard not detected,
press F1 to continue." and "Mouse not detected. Click here to
change."
Most BIOSes that I have seen have the option to turn off the checks so that a
headless server will boot without a monitor or keyboard.
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