Headless Linux

["Christian J. Miller" <Chris@TCLC.org>]

Hi Folks,

Over the weekend I succeeded installing RedHat Linux 8.0 on a headless
Dell box using the serial interface as console.  Had some problems and
solved some problems.  Insight available for the asking.  :-)

Disk space is cheap, so I select all available packages.  Operationally,
I have discovered that the boot sequence hangs after the ampd console
message appears on the serial console output and before I see the
expected kswapd console message:

        apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
        -----------  <== Hangs here.
        Starting kswapd

I have learned that plugging in a keyboard is sufficient to avoid this
hang.

I'm aware that there are BIOS diagnostics that will cause a hang under
some circumstances when no keyboard is present but I don't believe that
such is my problem because I am well past BIOS initialization and I am
into RedHat boot sequence.  Are there any ideas why the lack of keyboard
causes this headless installation to hang on boot?  More importantly,
are there any ideas how to eliminate this hang?

Thanks for the help.

Chris.

Life is a journey, not a destination ...

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