How to boot a New World without graphics card?

[John Weir]

thank you all for the advice.

turning of Kadzu did not work.

i have not tried the below yet, but will.

when i do try to boot with no graphics card no entries show up in the  
boot.log, nothing.

i do not know much about the whole boot process, but my guess is that  
linux is never even booting.  so the boot is not failing, it is not  
happening.

perhaps the problem lies with yaboot?

i have tried adding novideo to the yaboot.com and run ybin, but i  
really don't know the proper syntax and i have not found any good  
documentation for yaboot and video.  on the other hand i might be  
barking up the wrong tree.




On Jul 2, 2004, at 11:43 AM, David Hacker wrote:

> 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
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