Re: Booting without VGA card

[Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au>]

>Hi everybody,
> 
>I'm booting a diskless client with a NETBOOT floppy.
>Everything works fine. Now I tried to boot it without
>a graphics card installed. The floppy seemed to
>have been read, but the network card never flashed
>up, so I assume that the netboot code didn't execute.
> 
>Has anybody successfully tried to boot a computer without a VGA
>installed? Or is there any reason this couldn't work?

A lot of PC BIOSes don't like booting up without some sort of video
card. Try installing some obsolete video card, just good enough to pass
the POST. You don't need a video monitor of course.
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