On 2018-09-03 9:43 p.m., Dennis Clarke wrote: > > Seems to work fine so long as there is a monitor attached at boot time. > If there isn't then the whole system goes into loud windfarm mode and is > a warm brick.
This is due to yaboot's ofboot.b script hanging if no display connection is detected. See https://web.archive.org/web/20151026003327/http://saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com/blog/archive/2005/02/THE_WINE_OF_BOOT.html for background. Possible solutions: * Using GRUB instead of yaboot? * Removing the "screen" line from the ofboot.b script. * Connecting something to a display output. With my G5, connecting just a DVI-to-VGA adapter to a DVI port was enough to avoid the problem, no actual monitor required. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Mesa and X developer
