Re: BootX & Booting without keyboard/monitor
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:44:53AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> 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.
>
Ok... but I remember doing something very similar before, and that was with
2.2.17.
My problem wasn't with quik, OF wouldn't even find it... :(
Let me get a box setup to test this...
Mike
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