Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-28 Thread Paul Sutton
On 26/10/10 23:35, Grant Sewell wrote: > On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:28:35 +0100 > Rob Beard wrote: > >> On 26/10/10 22:41, Glen Mehn wrote: >>> Do you get to see what happens when the screen is plugged in? Ah a physical screen (monitor), i kinda read that as the program screen lol -- ubuntu-uk@l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-27 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 14:51 +0100, Paul Willis wrote: > Yep, we had those too. Kick-off I think it was called. > > In fact here it is > http://www.sophisticated.com/products/kick-off/kick-off_mac.html Yep, that's it! Thanks for the reminder. May I never see such a device again. :) Tyler -- "A

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-27 Thread Glen Mehn
On 27/10/10 12:24, Paul Willis wrote: > > As far as what happened at the point where the Mac Mini was on but not > visible on the network I'm not sure what stage it was at. As I mentioned this > is in a remote office so I'm troubleshooting it via email and phone with a > non technical person b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-27 Thread Paul Willis
On 27 Oct 2010, at 14:01, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 12:24 +0100, Paul Willis wrote: >> I do remember now that some older Mac G4 towers we used (running Mac OS X >> server) had a similar headless problem and plugging the DVI to VGA adapter >> in the back sorted it. I had for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-27 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 12:24 +0100, Paul Willis wrote: > I do remember now that some older Mac G4 towers we used (running Mac OS X > server) had a similar headless problem and plugging the DVI to VGA adapter in > the back sorted it. I had forgotten about that so it might be the answer as > the di

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-27 Thread Paul Willis
On 26 Oct 2010, at 23:35, Grant Sewell wrote: > On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:28:35 +0100 > Rob Beard wrote: > >> On 26/10/10 22:41, Glen Mehn wrote: >>> Do you get to see what happens when the screen is plugged in? i.e,. >>> is it stuck before grub or after? I kind of assume you aren't >>> running X o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-26 Thread Grant Sewell
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:28:35 +0100 Rob Beard wrote: > On 26/10/10 22:41, Glen Mehn wrote: > > Do you get to see what happens when the screen is plugged in? i.e,. > > is it stuck before grub or after? I kind of assume you aren't > > running X on the server (stock ubuntu server, right?) > > > > I kn

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-26 Thread Rob Beard
On 26/10/10 22:41, Glen Mehn wrote: > Do you get to see what happens when the screen is plugged in? i.e,. is > it stuck before grub or after? I kind of assume you aren't running X on > the server (stock ubuntu server, right?) > > I know of a hosting company who uses mac minis (though I can't think

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-26 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 21:57 +0100, Simon Greenwood wrote: > You could try disabling the DVI port in the Ubuntu config. I doubt very, very much that Ubuntu has anything to do with this. Start by checking that EFI, the Mac equivalent of BIOS, has a setting to "ignore boot errors", or "headless boot"

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-26 Thread Glen Mehn
Do you get to see what happens when the screen is plugged in? i.e,. is it stuck before grub or after? I kind of assume you aren't running X on the server (stock ubuntu server, right?) I know of a hosting company who uses mac minis (though I can't think of who they are at the moment... grumble..

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-26 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 26 October 2010 21:09, Rob Beard wrote: > On 26/10/10 20:50, Paul Willis wrote: > > Hi > > > > I set up Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server on a Mac Mini and shipped it off to our > other office (too far for me to go and troubleshoot) where they plugged in a > screen configured the network settings in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-26 Thread Rob Beard
On 26/10/10 20:50, Paul Willis wrote: > Hi > > I set up Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server on a Mac Mini and shipped it off to our > other office (too far for me to go and troubleshoot) where they plugged in a > screen configured the network settings in the cli and then unplugged the > screen. > > Everythi

[ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-26 Thread Paul Willis
Hi I set up Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server on a Mac Mini and shipped it off to our other office (too far for me to go and troubleshoot) where they plugged in a screen configured the network settings in the cli and then unplugged the screen. Everything worked fine until at some point a few weeks later