2011/1/24 Michel Dänzer <daen...@debian.org> > 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
