[luau] Boot "headless"

MonMotha monmotha at indy.rr.com
Mon Jan 12 06:48:00 PST 2004


Beeson Benjamin LtCol 615 AMOS/XO wrote:
> Aloha,
> 	
> 	I have a linux box that I have turned into a router + firewall
> that now needs to be able to boot without a monitor or keyboard or mouse
> attached.  How do I do this?  Currently the box has a RH 7.2 install
> with MonMotha's firewall.  The installation is mostly there, but I have
> left off a few things like GCC etc just in case.  I would like to be
> able to secure shell into the router from the internal interface and
> start a remote X session if possible.  Is this doable?
> 
> Mahalos in advance,
> 
> Ben 


Usually is.  Linux will happily start without a video card or anything of the 
like (though redhat may get mad).  In fact, you can even have it throw the 
console on the RS-232 serial port in case you want to "console in" some time.

The issue is usually the BIOS.  Many BIOSes will refuse to boot without a 
keyboard or video card installed.  Check your BIOS options (sometimes you can 
turn off halt on errors).

--MonMotha




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