booting with no video adapter

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 9/6/06, Gilboa Davara <gilboad at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/6/06, T. Horsnell <tsh at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > >On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 18:23 +0100, T. Horsnell wrote:
> > >> How can I get an FC5 system to boot without a video adapter?
> > >> At the moment, I cant even figure out how to tell grub that
> > >> it has no VGA, let alone Linux. Any ideas anyone?
> > >>
> > >> Cheers,
> > >> Terry
> > >>
> > >
> > >Why does it matter? I usually setup headless machines using a serial
> > >null cable: (AKA Serial console)
> > >All you need to do is configure grub [1] (and BIOS?), add serial console
> >
> > But this is what I cant figure out how to do. How to configure
> > grub so that it doesnt try to use video?
> >
> > Terry.
> >
>
> You seem to have missed the supplised links.
>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/configure-boot-loader-grub.html
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/configure-kernel-grub.html
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/getty-agetty.html

Not having a videocard is not at all the same thing as not having a
display.  I've not seen any motherboards which will POST without some
kind of videocard.


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