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Re: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor



On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:43:40AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a bunch of 7200 Macs that I want to turn into servers, and I'm having
> trouble getting them to boot without the monitor.  I've tried it on a
> 7300 and a beige g3, and they work fine without a monitor.
> 
> Are there any tricks that will let me do this?  Maybe a resistor or
> something that will make MacOS _think_ there is a monitor there?

yes, don't use bootx, use quik.  quik works fine on these machines.

just setup a simple /etc/quik.conf with your image= line pointing at
the REAL kernel in /boot (which is not a partition) and not a
symlink. then run /sbin/quik and the following:

nvsetenv boot-device "$(ofpath /dev/sda)0"

the ending 0 is important and not a typo.  

it will now boot with quik.  

> If someone will try to help with quik on this, I'll give it a try, but the
> last time I tried I had a hell of a time.

see above, its not bad anymore, since 2.2.17 the kernel has been
fixed.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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