RE: Booting without a monitor: No Go
On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 23:31, Curtis Spencer wrote:
> I have it set up for Halt On: no error on that BIOS setting, yet
> strangely I still cannot boot up. I disconnect all peripherals
> including the keyboard, but leave just the monitor, and I can watch it
> boot up just fine. The kernel output just complains that no AT keyboard
> is present but I am able to SSH into the system.
>
> I have done some more investigating with disconnecting the monitor at
> different times and it seems that once it passes the POST, I can
> disconnect the monitor and it will continue to boot up fine. It seems
> that it needs the monitor at POST. I think this is no longer a problem
> with debian, but perhaps someone might have an idea. It is a Elsa
> Geforce 2 Vid Card by the way and KT7 Raid.
Is there a way, from the BIOS setup, to bypass POST, or do a "quick
POST"?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dave mallery [mailto:dmallery@mordor.cia-g.com] On Behalf Of dave
> mallery
> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 8:48 AM
> To: Curtis Spencer
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Booting without a monitor: No Go
>
> hi
>
> look on the first page of the cmos setup for an option that
> says: stop on ....
>
> it probably says "any error" for sure if it says that, it will stop
> with no keyboard attached and never boot.
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