Shortcut and function keys

If required, you can use hot keys to prevent certain drivers from loading in order to avoid PBA startup issues on certain systems:

Key

Function

k

Default keyboard driver is not loaded

l

No keyboard layouts other than English are available in the PBA

s

No smartcard support

a

All the above functions are selected

b

Switching between keyboard and layout drivers (b->both)

c

Switching between keyboard combi drivers (c->combi)

After that, the current status is briefly displayed before loading the PBA (see example in figure below).

The following function keys can be used within the start screen:

Key

Function

F1

Login with password

F2

Login with token

F3

Emergency logon

F5

Help call

F8

Forced check for tokens