On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 3:32 PM Henry W. Peterson < henrywillpeter...@outlook.com> wrote:
> Do I need a graphics card installed all the time? > > The motherboard has pins for a COM serial port, during installation I was > asked if I wanted "com0" to become the default console. I said no. > I believe the requirement is that the system always needs a console device. The console device does not need to use a graphics card, however; a serial port is an acceptable console. I am guessing the problem you are having is you said no to using a serial console on com0, then removed the video card so you couldn't have a wscons console either. If you had answered yes to setting com0 to be the default console, things would probably have worked. There are several i386/amd64 systems that are sold without graphics hardware, e.g. the PC Engines APU2, and the Soekris systems while they were still available. They work fine using com0 as the console. -ken
