Subject: Re: headless i386 not booting
To: Staffan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Thom=E9n?= <duck@multi.fi>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 02/28/2003 20:33:14
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:02:43AM +0200, Staffan Thomén wrote:
> [ Original text by Julio Merino indented ]
> > On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:33:18 -0800
> > Harry Waddell <waddell@caravan.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Leave the video card in. For a pc, I'm almost certain that you must have
> > > a video card to boot. You don't have to attach a monitor to it. Then use
> > 
> > Wrong. My server does not have a video card in. You have to:
> [...]
> > 2) Disable all console devices from kernel (wsdisplay, pccons, etc). If you
> >    leave some of them in, it will crash... this sounds like a bug.
> 
>  Right, I thought of this, but it didn't work, perhaps I missed
>  some console device.  Will look more into it tonight.

I think you can't have it working without a console device.
One solution is to configure it to use a serial console (install serial
boot blocks). It will work even if nothing is connected to the serial port.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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