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From: "Corey Snow" <corey@snowpoint.com>
To: "Corey Snow" <corey@snowpoint.com>,
	Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 01:46:02 -0700
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On 8 Jun 2002, at 4:41, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:

> 
> Most computer BIOSes, especially that old, won't allow you to start up 
> without a video card.  That doesn't mean you have to have a monitor 
> attached...  You can run headless by not attaching the monitor to it.  
> Make sure you tell the BIOS to ignore keyboard errors if you can -- many 
> BIOSes won't go past a keyboard error unoless you have a setting set to 
> ignore keyboard errors.
> 
> Chad
> 

After I sent that message I managed to find some additional 
resources. Turns out I'm pretty lucky to have such an ancient 
machine. Since it has an American Megatrends (AMI) BIOS from 1993, I 
can shut off both the keyboard and the display probes, so it'll boot 
with no video card.

Still, it's pretty late and I don't feel like recompiling my kernel 
tonight to enable a serial console. I'll tackle that tomorrow. :)

Regards,

Corey


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