Alan,

I've seen various things said, and I have experienced different
things depending on the model, but let me just say with some
degree of confidence that: if you have a graphics card installed,
try removing that first.  I don't believe I have seen a case with
a workng system, that did not chat with the serial port when there
was no graphics adapter installed.

Cheers,

-- Ken

Alan Wilson wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm having a few problems with my Decstation 5000/133 when i reboot my
> machine the machine will hang at a console prompt until i insert the
> keyboard. I thought if there was no keyboard present the machine would
> boot and send console ouput/input to the first serial port???
> 
> Can anyone tell me a fix for this as it's a bit annoying having to drag
> the keyboard out the cupboard everytime i reboot my server :-)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alan./
> 
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