[oclug]booting w/out video

[Paul Faure]

On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Phil Tanguay wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Tim Forbes wrote:
> > As I only need remote access, I'm interested in having a PC boot without a
> > video card installed. When I removed the card and applied power, I got some
> > beeps. The system is currently dual-boot and my Linux option is second on
> > Grub's list, so I tried {down-arrow}{enter} but no disk activity signalled
> > a booting process.
> 
> I could be wrong, but I think PC hardware simply will not work AT ALL without a
> video card.  You could try to telling the bios to not stop on any errors
> (there's usually an option for that), but I doubt it will work.

That is correct, a PC will not work without a video card. You can purchase 
a used cheep card for about $5.

The option in the bios re PCI/AGP will not harm you system, you will still 
be able to see and get into the bios if its wrong.

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