[Discuss] booting without keyboard, mouse, or monitor

[David Bronaugh]

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> 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.
I'll chime in with the "Set BIOS to halt on either all but keyboard, or 
no error". Some video cards (S3 in particular) also cause comp to beep 
when booting if no video card is connected; but most modern ones don't care.

David