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Re: Powermac G5 won't boot headless?



On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 00:29 -0400, Alexandre Gauthier wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am planning on using a Dual PowerMac G5 as a server. I installed Debian 
> Stable and apt-pinned a few things, such as the kernel from Testing.
> 
> All is well, until I realized that somehow, the machine apparently will NOT 
> boot headless, that is, if the monitor is not present... this is slightly 
> inconvenient in the case of a mail server that will almost never have a 
> monitor plugged in, unless something is broken.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone had an idea about this, or maybe a workaround?

No monitor plugged or no video card ? I don't have a problem with the
first case though I haven't tested the second case. 

Ben.




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