fedora booting without a monitor.

[Robert Slade]

On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 02:10, Bruce Douglas wrote:
> jim...
> 
> how could i do that!!!
> 
> i'll try to rub the butt of a master if i thought it would work right now!!!
> 
> -bruce
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com>
> Sent: Mar 11, 2005 6:08 PM
> To: Bruce Douglas <bedouglas at earthlink.net>, 
> 	For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: fedora booting without a monitor.
> 
> 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!!
> > 
> > bruce
> > 
> 
> 
> Did you try to set your monitor to a model that does not use probing? A 
> selectiiion that no monitor is sent information and the boot process is 
> left in a wait state. (generic vga or something)
> 
> Just a wild guess - :-)
> 
> Jim
> 
> -- 
> How many hardware guys does it take to change a light bulb?
> 
> "Well the diagnostics say it's fine buddy, so it's a software problem."

Just a dumb question did you set the BIOS of the machine to halt on no
errors?

That is all I had to do to run a FC3 box with no monitor/keyboard/mouse.


Rob