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. 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. Gilboa
