Verily did Andrew Gillham write:

>> I'm putting together a headless PC (well, it's running already), but I
>> need to figure out how to tell the kernel to ignore the missing keyboard.

>> Currently, it gets to the kernel loading and the kernel demands to see
>> the keyboard before it continues.  The BIOS itself doesn't care (yay!).

> If you are talking about the 'Insert file system floppy' message, look
> on line 250 of /sys/arch/i386/boot/boot.c.  Just comment out the check
> for 'maj == 2' and related code.

My last e-mail that I just sent mentioned pcvt, I'm going to try a new
kernel with pccons.  I was using pcvt because I just used the same kernel
that was on another machine.

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