Re: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor
Power Macintosh: Setting up for Use Without a Monitor
Mac video isn't just SVGA with a different plug.
Apple DB15 video port uses pins 4, 7 and 10 as Sense Lines.
At boot, Mac looks at these sense lines to see
what kind of video/monitor is attached.
Think of it as a very ancient predecessor to plug and pray.
Inherited way, way back from the m68020 mac][.
Basically, you need to create a "loopback" plug
for the Apple 15pin video port. It will fool the
mac into thinking you have a monitor of
(yourChoice) size attached and continue happily about its boot.
All Macs will happily boot without a keyboard, or any desktop-bus
devices attached.
This is the official Apple "blessed" method.
Go to http://til.info.apple.com
request document # 21236
Power Macintosh: Setting up for Use Without a Monitor
A DebianOnly machine should be able to discard this appendix
and boot without need of a mac-specific hardware kludge.
I hadn't said anything before because everyone is doing so well
with the "cleanroom implementation" approach. But for those who
have MacOS installed, and those about to be discouraged,
it is the only "Apple" way to go "headless."
(think headless Appleshare IP servers)
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