How to boot a New World without graphics card?

[David Hacker]

Do you have linux set as the default to autoboot in yaboot?  If so it  
should time out and boot YDL after about 30 seconds.  I think the  
kernel argument is video=novideo.  Not sure never done a headless boot.

David C. Hacker, DVM
On Jul 2, 2004, at 3:15 PM, John Weir wrote:

> 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
>>>> meta: headless, linux, yellow dog, cube, graphics card, ydl
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