jim... i'm simply doing a regular boot up process... if there's a way to do a straight 'text' boot up, i'm game to try it... all i want to do is to get the machine to boot, and get completely through the process.... once the machine is up/running, it's only accessed via ssh/vnc... -bruce -----Original Message----- From: Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Mar 11, 2005 6:36 PM To: Bruce Douglas <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [Offlist] Re: fedora booting without a monitor. Bruce Douglas wrote: > 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."
