Curious why the PowerMac G5 quad needs a monitor to boot

[Dennis Clarke]

Seems like very strange behavior but if I try to boot the G5 headless
it just roars the fans and sits there dead.

No idea why.

ppc64$
ppc64$ uname -a
Linux hydra 5.0.11-genunix #1 SMP Fri May 3 21:37:21 UTC 2019 ppc64 
GNU/Linux
ppc64$ uname -rm
5.0.11-genunix ppc64
ppc64$


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