On 9/6/06, Gilboa Davara <gilboad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 9/6/06, T. Horsnell <tsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >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 > > But this is what I cant figure out how to do. How to configure > grub so that it doesnt try to use video? > > Terry. > You seem to have missed the supplised links. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/configure-boot-loader-grub.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/configure-kernel-grub.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/getty-agetty.html
Not having a videocard is not at all the same thing as not having a display. I've not seen any motherboards which will POST without some kind of videocard. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org
