On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:39:31PM +0000, Matt Parker wrote:
No, I've nothing to view output on...it stalls somewhere in the boot-up process.
Well surely the first thing to do is to connect a monitor, you should then be able to see where it's stopping. Connecting the monitor is unlikely to have any effect, especially an old VGA one if you have one lying around.
Perhaps I'm not explaining myself well. It (both) RedHat boxen boot-up just fine with monitor/keyboard/mouse attached, but will not boot up without (what I want). So I have no idea where it's going wrong. I don't get anything in /var/log/messages on a failed bootup, so it's stopping somewhere before syslogd gets started. That's all I know.
Yes, I think I do understand, connect *just* the monitor. The Redhat box will almost certainly still fail to boot in the same way that it fails without keyboard, mouse and monitor. While one could possibly program in something that would complain about a missing monitor I've never seen it, from the boot process' point of view 'no monitor' is equivalent to a very basic monitor of some sort so it should still boot OK.
I'm pretty certain you'll find that it's the missing keyboard that's stopping it booting, you may be able to change the BIOS to bypass that.