Headless K7M Boot

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ba747heavy · Post by **ba747heavy** » Thu May 19, 2005 2:06 am

I'm trying to get a headless router working. The server is 100% functional if I have a video card and monitor attached, but if I remove the monitor/video card (which I want to do for power consumption reasons) the server either hangs in the POST stage or the linux boot stage (I can't tell which). I am using an Asus K7M, and google isn't telling me how or if the K7M can boot up that way.

Randy R · Post by **Randy R** » Thu May 19, 2005 2:19 am

In my machine, I had to look into the bios setup. There was an option in there ( don't remember what it was.. maybe net boot or some such.) I enabled that and it has worked. I didn't remove the video card, but the only thing the computer is connected to is the network and power.

fwiw

ba747heavy · Post by **ba747heavy** » Thu May 19, 2005 2:50 am

Appreciate that bit of advice, but it still won't boot up without the video card in the system. Really starting to irritate me, because I do not want to go out and purchase a videocard for this thing. I assumed I could get it booting without a vid card so I stole a card from one of my other machines to run the install on.

madmango · Post by **madmango** » Tue May 24, 2005 10:52 pm

It's probably stopping at the linux boot phase, when init brings up the ttys. It can't find a video card so it stalls setting them up. Edit /etc/inittab to your liking.