Booting without a monitor: No Go

["Curtis Spencer" <cspenc@stanford.edu>]

I have a weird issue that I have never had with any other system I have
been running.  I have a Abit KT7 Board with a Geforce 2 vid card.  It is
a minimalist system because I just want it to be a mysql/cvs server, so
I haven't installed XFree86 or the nvidia drivers.  The console works
fine and I can ssh into it, but only if I booted it with a monitor
attached.  I can watch it boot up fine as long as there is a monitor.
When I disconnect the monitor and try to reboot through ssh, I can never
connect again, unless I reconnect a monitor and then restart the whole
thing.  I can't get a display to come up at all when I connect the
monitor sometime after I have booted it without the monitor.  Very
strange.  I was thinking about trying a VGA terminator plug on the vid
card because if I turn off the monitor without disconnecting it, the
system still boots correctly.  Sounds like a hardware prob to me, but
just curious...

Thanks,
Curtis