Curious why the PowerMac G5 quad needs a monitor to boot

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Subject: Curious why the PowerMac G5 quad needs a monitor to boot
From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 23:03:38 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 1d1f7095-4808-8b2d-0d17-82f4c4abd618@blastwave.org>


Seems like very strange behavior but if I try to boot the G5 headless
it just roars the fans and sits there dead.

No idea why.

ppc64$
ppc64$ uname -a

Linux hydra 5.0.11-genunix #1 SMP Fri May 3 21:37:21 UTC 2019 ppc64GNU/Linux

ppc64$ uname -rm
5.0.11-genunix ppc64
ppc64$


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