[Offlist] Re: fedora booting without a monitor.

[Jim Cornette]

Bruce Douglas wrote:
> brian/all,
> 
> to recap. i had a server with RH8 that ran with no probs as a remote server (no keyboard/no mouse/no monitor).
> 
> i installed FC3 on the box, didn't touch anything regarding the bios. FC3 came up with a test monitor, and displayed a lot of seriously ugly pixels, indicating that there was/is a video issue. i found something from a post, and changed a setting in the xcore.conf (i believe.. can't recall right now).
> 
> this cleared up the pixel/monitor issue, and allowed me to see that FC3 was up/running as it should. i unplugged the mouse/keyboard/monitor, and fired the machine up...
> 
> and it hung!! troubleshooting led me to the current status. i can boot with the monitor alone, and the boxe comes up. i remove the monitor, and the box hangs...
> 
> i though about the video card/bios issue, but then it never should have worked with RH8, if it were a BIOS issue...
> 
> there have been some similar posts which is what led me to the 'vga=0/off...'
> 
> it appears to be an issue with FC3... 
> 
> any thoughts/comments/etc...
> 
> -bruce
> 
> ps. i'm running an intel 815 mobo, and there is no 'headless' setting in the bios...
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Fahrlander <brian at fahrlander.net>
> Sent: Mar 11, 2005 5:08 PM
> To: Bruce Douglas <bedouglas at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [Offlist] Re: fedora booting without a monitor.
> 
> On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 16:03 -0800, Bruce Douglas wrote:
> 
>>hi...
>>
>>arrggghhh... looks like i spoke to soon. using 'vga=0' in the
>>grub.conf didn't work.
>>
>>so, back to the original question, does anyone have a way of getting
>>an intel based 815 machine running FC3 to boot without a monitor. the
>>funny thing is that this was not an issue with RH8.
>>
>>going to FC3 has been painful to say the least!!
> 
> 
>     I missed the first part of this problem; what seems to be the
> problem?  Unless the video 'card' is needing a monitor to boot, it
> shouldn't matter to Fedora at all.
> 
>     Can you set it to 'headless' operation in the BIOS?
> 

Are you booting into runlevel 3 or 5? I assume that being that you do 
not want a monitor, you are not booting into 5 (graphics).

The only thing that comes to mind is something is hanging trying to 
initialize the GUI. This is just another guess of course.

I have an 815 grphics card also. I never tried to boot without the 
monitor though. I also boot runlevel 3 w/o gdm or rhgb.

Jim

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