[Discuss] booting without keyboard, mouse, or monitor

[Alan W. Irwin]

I know booting without keyboard, mouse, or monitor is possible, but do you
have to do anything special to make it work (assuming you have grub set up
to boot after a few seconds)?  For example, is there some BIOS parameter
and/or kernel boot parameter you have to set?

I am interested in this topic because my new system just arrived, and I now
have three systems with two sets of keyboards, mice, and monitors, and while
installing Linux on the new system I need the other two old systems to be
booted as a temporary measure as I copy files off them, etc.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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