Re: [grub #9] booting with no video card

[Christoph Plattner]

Hello !

I have not check your special case now, but under normal curcumstances,
this boot problem is one of the BIOS not GRUB !

I often use GRUB on "headless" machines (without VGA and keyboard)
and it works well !

The BIOS offers a setting like "Halt on no errors". Otherwise the
BIOS stops booting the machine with error messages like "keyboard
not present" or - in case of no VGA card - it stops with some
audio signals.

Try to setup the BIOS appropriate, configure GRUB to use the serial
line, and everthing should work.

BTW: we had problems with some Compaq PC not having a possibility to
configure the BIOS to tolerate such missing components like keyboard
and VGA.

For testing, it is easier to test with installed VGA and removed
keyboard. Then you can read the error messages. When you have a
setup booting without keyboard, then the system will also boot without
graphics card.

Have a nice Xmas
Christoph


address@hidden wrote:
> Reporter: address@hidden
> Summary: booting with no video card
> Version: redhat 7.3
> Type: software bug
>
> Message:
> none of our high availability servers have video cards
> grub does not boot when there is no video card
> there appear to be mod patches documented out there but support of no video 
> card by grub is missing
>
> architecturally speaking it makes no sense that grub is the only piece of 
> software that requires a video card
>
> other can help by acknowledging that this feature is important to them
>
> Thank You Kindly
> Art
>
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