[Fedora] Re: [Offlist] Re: fedora booting without a monitor.

Bruce Douglas bedouglas at earthlink.net
Sat Mar 12 03:12:46 UTC 2005


ok guys...

here's what i have right now. and it seems to work. 

i went into the system/display and changed the display settings to be 640x480, with 256 colors...

but the interesting thing was that FC3 didn't allow me to select a monitor/display from the list of displays. the select dialog was always grey.... (curious!!)

changing the display attributes has apparently resolved the issue. i can now boot up the server with no monitor, no keyboard, and no mouse.. which is where i was a week ago...

thanks, and hopefully this thread will be captured and available via google if someone else has this issue!!!

-bruce



-----Original Message-----
From: "Ashley M. Kirchner" <ashley at pcraft.com>
Sent: Mar 11, 2005 6:58 PM
To: Bruce Douglas <bedouglas at earthlink.net>, 
	For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Fedora] Re: [Offlist] Re: fedora booting without a monitor.

Bruce Douglas wrote:

>jim...
>
>i'm simply doing a regular boot up process... if there's a way to do a straight 'text' boot up, i'm game to try it...
>
>all i want to do is to get the machine to boot, and get completely through the process....
>
>once the machine is up/running, it's only accessed via ssh/vnc...
>
>-bruce
>  
>
    Then you don't need it to start up in graphics mode, which may 
explain why it's freezing up on you.  Change your /etc/inittab to boot 
into runlevel 3 - look for the line at the beginning that says 
'id:5:initdefault:' and change it to 3 instead of 5.  Reboot.

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