>On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 15:54 +0100, T. Horsnell wrote: >> >On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 13:20 +0100, T. Horsnell wrote: >> >> >>What does /proc/cpuinfo say? >> >> > >> > >> >[ snip] >> > >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Terry. >> >> >> > >> >Weird! >> >A. Can you access the machine BIOS from a serial port? >> >> This will take me a while to find cable/connectors. In the meantime: >> >> >B. Can you upload the output of /var/log/messages and /var/log/dmesg >> >with and w/o a VGA? > >Its 2am here and I'm a bit sleepy so I may be just guessing here... I'll >give your logs another read tomorrow... Maybe I'll find something >interesting. > >Anyways, of the top of my head it seems that you board/BIOS goes into >some weird safe mode, disabling the dual core, when the VGA card is >removed. I'd venture to guess that this board was never designed to >operate fully head-less. The mobo documentation says it should operate w/o VGA > >If this is indeed true I'd suggest you reinstall the VGA and leave it >disconnected. >Nothing stops you from having a VGA card -and- having the >grub/kernel/console output redirected to a serial console. Agreed, and this is probably what I'll do. I dont even need serial console as ten of these are intended to be part of a compute farm. I just need to get hold of ten cheapo PCI low-profile VGA cards. Thanks for your time anyway. Cheers, Terry. > >Gilboa > >-- >fedora-list mailing list >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
