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Old 01-09-2014, 08:13 AM   #1
zeigleml
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Server will not boot when no monitor attached


I have a machine I have been using for some time as a server running headless fedora 17. I recently reinstalled it to fedora 20. I changed the "default.target" to point to "multi-user.target" to have it boot without X. It works fine as long as there is a monitor attached. When I remove it and try to reboot, the machine never responds. I cannot see anything since there is no monitor attached. i am not able to ping or ssh into the box. When I attach a monitor when it seems to be in this "hung" state, I see nothing. The monitor goes into sleep mode. I have looked through /var/log/messages and nothing stood out to me.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Any suggestions how to go about researching/solving this?
 
Old 01-10-2014, 02:12 AM   #2
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Hello Zeigleml.
Ref Server will not boot when no monitor attached
It is possible the settings in the bios is set to halt on all errors, if so alter to halt on no errors.
I hope this helps
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