How to boot a New World without graphics card?

[David Hacker]

Also, you should make sure you are booting into a CLI runlevel and not 
the GUI runlevel or X will hang looking for the graphics card.  
runlevel 3 should work.
David C. Hacker, DVM
On Jul 2, 2004, at 11:19 AM, mascarasnake wrote:

> This is just a guess, but it may be that kudzu is noticing that there 
> is no video card, is looking for one and hanging. try disabling kudzu 
> - as root :
> 	/sbin/chkconfig kudzu off
> then reboot the machine. Like I said, just a guess., but worth a try.
>
> g'luck
>
> John Weir wrote:
>
>> I see there have already been a number of headless discussions going 
>> on here.  But none of them answered my problem, or at least I was 
>> unable to extract an answer from them.
>> I have a Cube which I have been running as a headless OS X server, 
>> headless in the sense of no graphics cards, no monitor.
>> The graphic card produces a lot of heat and the machine is on 24/7.  
>> no need for for the waste.
>> OS X booted and ran just fine like this, but I have decided to run 
>> Linux instead.
>> Linux installed fine (with a graphics card) and is all setup.  But 
>> unplug the graphic card and linux won't boot.
>> I am guessing linux is looking for the card?  But I don't know.
>> Any advice or pointers will be much appreciated.
>> - john
>> meta: headless, linux, yellow dog, cube, graphics card, ydl
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