On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 18:23 +0100, T. Horsnell wrote: > How can I get an FC5 system to boot without a video adapter? > At the moment, I cant even figure out how to tell grub that > it has no VGA, let alone Linux. Any ideas anyone? > > Cheers, > Terry > Why does it matter? I usually setup headless machines using a serial null cable: (AKA Serial console) All you need to do is configure grub [1] (and BIOS?), add serial console support to the kernel command line [2] and add a serial console to inittab [3]. - Gilboa [1] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/configure-boot-loader-grub.html [2] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/configure-kernel-grub.html [3] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/getty-agetty.html
