On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 10:59 -0400, Alexandre Gauthier wrote: > Le mercredi 11 octobre 2006 02:11, Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit : > > On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 00:29 -0400, Alexandre Gauthier wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I am planning on using a Dual PowerMac G5 as a server. I installed Debian > > > Stable and apt-pinned a few things, such as the kernel from Testing. > > > > > > All is well, until I realized that somehow, the machine apparently will > > > NOT boot headless, that is, if the monitor is not present... this is > > > slightly inconvenient in the case of a mail server that will almost never > > > have a monitor plugged in, unless something is broken. > > > > > > I was wondering if anyone had an idea about this, or maybe a workaround? > > > > No monitor plugged or no video card ? I don't have a problem with the > > first case though I haven't tested the second case. > > > > Ben. > > No monitor. The machine does have a Video Card. > > What happens when I yank the DVI cable from the machine, and reboot is: > > 1) The chime is heard > 2) Fans kick in gradually. > > Since I can't see where it is in the boot process at all, I assume it is > somewhere in yaboot, wich would indeed cause the fans to kick in to full > speed if left on for a while... > > But it never boots completely. Add a monitor, and it's fine...
interesting... I have a dual with a serial port, I'll do some tests. It could be a yaboot issue. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
