On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:44:53AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:43:40AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a bunch of 7200 Macs that I want to turn into servers, and I'm having > > trouble getting them to boot without the monitor. I've tried it on a > > 7300 and a beige g3, and they work fine without a monitor. > > > > Are there any tricks that will let me do this? Maybe a resistor or > > something that will make MacOS _think_ there is a monitor there? > > yes, don't use bootx, use quik. quik works fine on these machines. > > just setup a simple /etc/quik.conf with your image= line pointing at > the REAL kernel in /boot (which is not a partition) and not a > symlink. then run /sbin/quik and the following: > > nvsetenv boot-device "$(ofpath /dev/sda)0" > > the ending 0 is important and not a typo. > > it will now boot with quik. > > > If someone will try to help with quik on this, I'll give it a try, but the > > last time I tried I had a hell of a time. > > see above, its not bad anymore, since 2.2.17 the kernel has been > fixed. > Ok... but I remember doing something very similar before, and that was with 2.2.17.
My problem wasn't with quik, OF wouldn't even find it... :( Let me get a box setup to test this... Mike
