On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 15:42 +0100, T. Horsnell wrote: > >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. > BTW, you might try to send a bug report to you mobo maker. It looks like a BIOS problem to me. - Gilboa
