brian/all,
to recap. i had a server with RH8 that ran with no probs as a remote server (no keyboard/no mouse/no monitor).
i installed FC3 on the box, didn't touch anything regarding the bios. FC3 came up with a test monitor, and displayed a lot of seriously ugly pixels, indicating that there was/is a video issue. i found something from a post, and changed a setting in the xcore.conf (i believe.. can't recall right now).
this cleared up the pixel/monitor issue, and allowed me to see that FC3 was up/running as it should. i unplugged the mouse/keyboard/monitor, and fired the machine up...
and it hung!! troubleshooting led me to the current status. i can boot with the monitor alone, and the boxe comes up. i remove the monitor, and the box hangs...
i though about the video card/bios issue, but then it never should have worked with RH8, if it were a BIOS issue...
there have been some similar posts which is what led me to the 'vga=0/off...'
it appears to be an issue with FC3...
any thoughts/comments/etc...
-bruce
ps. i'm running an intel 815 mobo, and there is no 'headless' setting in the bios...
-----Original Message----- From: Brian Fahrlander <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Mar 11, 2005 5:08 PM To: Bruce Douglas <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [Offlist] Re: fedora booting without a monitor.
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 16:03 -0800, 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!!
I missed the first part of this problem; what seems to be the problem? Unless the video 'card' is needing a monitor to boot, it shouldn't matter to Fedora at all.
Can you set it to 'headless' operation in the BIOS?
Are you booting into runlevel 3 or 5? I assume that being that you do not want a monitor, you are not booting into 5 (graphics).
The only thing that comes to mind is something is hanging trying to initialize the GUI. This is just another guess of course.
I have an 815 grphics card also. I never tried to boot without the monitor though. I also boot runlevel 3 w/o gdm or rhgb.
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."
