2011/1/24 Patrick Boutet <[email protected]> > 2011/1/24 Michel Dänzer <[email protected]> > > On Son, 2011-01-23 at 12:43 -0700, Patrick Boutet wrote: >> > So I have Debian (Lenny) installed on a G4 Xserver cluster node (specs >> > here). >> > We put 2 cards in the PCI riser expansion slot, a ATI Radeon 7000 and >> > a 10/100 Nic. >> > >> > >> > Everything installed fine and was booting perfectly, we setup SSH >> > tested it and it worked. So at this point we figured we could take the >> > video card out as it was no longer needed since we could just ssh into >> > the server. Upon removal of the video card and booting it up we found >> > that it would no longer boot, it would hang very early in the boot >> > process. We figured this out by turning on boot logging and found that >> > it would not even create a boot log file for the times it didn't have >> > a video card. So we are guessing that it is something with the boot >> > loader (yaboot) and it hanging because it expects that video card to >> > be in there. We tried editing our /etc/yaboot.conf file with >> > several different boot arguments and updating it to the system with >> > ybin. >> > novideo >> > append="video=ofonly" >> > append="video=radeonfb" >> > >> > >> > Were some of the ones we tried. This was honestly a bit of shooting in >> > the dark because we were really not sure if it was the boot loader, >> > but it was our best guess. >> > >> > >> > Anyway so has anyone come across this issue of PPC's not booting up >> > properly after removal of a video card? >> >> Yes, see >> >> http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2010-March/081324.html >> >> >> -- >> Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com >> Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer >> > > Thank you so much Michel, I'll be able to try it out tomorrow, so weird > this post never came up in our 3 hours of internet searching. I even > remember looking for G5 headless stuff because I saw that mentioned in > another search. > > Patrick >
Thanks so much Michel, I'm working with Patrick on this project and yes we spent a lot of time looking around for information. Will let the list know tomorrow if that worked for us or not. -- David Wildgoose
