fedora booting without a monitor.

[bruce]

whew.. this is what i get for typing after 36 hourse.. and 3 hours of sleep.
"butt of a hamster!!! instead of master.

anyway... it appears that the monitor issue can be solved by preventing the
FC3 kernel from doing the hardware/monitor probe. this can be accomplished
by adding the line "linux nofb" to the grub.conf config file.

and in fact, there appears to be some bugzilla threads related to this for
FC2.

this seems to have resolved the issue

-bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Robert Slade
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 11:26 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: fedora booting without a monitor.


On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 02:10, Bruce Douglas wrote:
> jim...
>
> how could i do that!!!
>
> i'll try to rub the butt of a master if i thought it would work right
now!!!
>
> -bruce
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com>
> Sent: Mar 11, 2005 6:08 PM
> To: Bruce Douglas <bedouglas at earthlink.net>,
> 	For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: fedora booting without a monitor.
>
> 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!!
> >
> > bruce
> >
>
>
> Did you try to set your monitor to a model that does not use probing? A
> selectiiion that no monitor is sent information and the boot process is
> left in a wait state. (generic vga or something)
>
> Just a wild guess - :-)
>
> 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."

Just a dumb question did you set the BIOS of the machine to halt on no
errors?

That is all I had to do to run a FC3 box with no monitor/keyboard/mouse.


Rob

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