Re: Boot w/o monitor ?

2003-05-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Chris Tillman wrote: > > Oh, it boots, all right. You just can't do much with it. It turns > off the video output so even if you plug one in later it ignores it. > Does not. It's set up to autoload Penguin-19, which auto-boots into Linux. ... unless there's no monitor. -- Matthias Urlichs

Re: LC 475 partition table

2003-05-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Brad Boyer wrote: > The only ways I've ever heard of to fix > it are to stick it in a non-Mac machine and wipe the whole drive > to start over, Actually, wiping the first 512-byte block should be enough. Apple's HD setup does leave interesting stuff on-disk. I once had a disk which came prew

Re: Boot w/o monitor ?

2003-05-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Brad Boyer wrote: > If you're really in a hurry, a piece of wire shorting out the correct > pins works, too. I have enough old 15-pin males in my grab bag to not have to resort to _that_, thank you very much. ;-) Anyway, I dimly remember, from my Mac development days, reading the Apple techn

Re: Boot w/o monitor ?

2003-05-29 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:56:47PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > I now have a Quadra box. It boots unattended, except when there's no > monitor attached. :-/ > > I'm sure somebody else must have gotten that one to work..? Oh, it boots, all right. You just can't do much with it. It tu

Re: Boot w/o monitor ?

2003-05-29 Thread Brad Boyer
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:56:47PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > I now have a Quadra box. It boots unattended, except when there's no > monitor attached. :-/ > > I'm sure somebody else must have gotten that one to work..? The trick I've seen work is to attach a mac/pc converter to the port. T

Boot w/o monitor ?

2003-05-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, I now have a Quadra box. It boots unattended, except when there's no monitor attached. :-/ I'm sure somebody else must have gotten that one to work..? -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://