Search Again: Re: Headless (non)operation on OSX From: dan@wavefront.ca (Dan Tappin) Date: Monday, April 29, 2002 Time: 7:59:35 am What video card do you have on this system? I have the same issue on two of my older servers but I resolved it with gHeads. I am running OS X 10.1.3 on a new QuickSilver and it starts up with the monitor off all the time. Do you get the start-up chime? What do your logs show after a dead-boot? Do you have a KVM switch attached or is it truly headless? Dan > I hope someone can help with this critical problem with OSX. Apple seem > unable or unwilling to help even thought the implications for them are huge. > > I've just been setting up our OSX server (a G4-800) and it won't boot up > unless it has a monitor attached. This makes it useless to us as our servers > are co-located. After a week on the phone to Apple (UK) their position > currently is that *OSX and OSX server do not support headless operation*. > > Apple have tested various versions of OSX themselves on several boxes and > have confirmed that the system software will not boot up without a monitor. > The boxes are not even pingable. We have tried gHeads and other monitor > adaptors - and even a trick with a paperclip but these do not solve the > problem (as they used to in the past). > > This is obviously going to be a very serious issue for anybody migrating to > OSX with co-located servers - or indeed anyone who wants to use them as a > headless file server in an office. > > Does anyone know of any solution to this problem, supported or unsupported > by Apple? > > If you are interested and if we hear anything useful I will inform the list. > Feel free to contact me off list at david.hooper@artlogic.net. > > This is clearly an issue which, if not resolved, is going to have a > significant impact on us but also all the companies which develop for OSX. > > David

Messages In This Thread: Headless (non)operation on OSX by David Hooper on Apr 29, 2002 at 5:11:21 am Re: Headless (non)operation on OSX by Len Conrad on Apr 29, 2002 at 6:35:55 am Re: Headless (non)operation on OSX by David Hooper on Apr 29, 2002 at 7:51:51 am Re: Headless (non)operation on OSX by dan@wavefront.ca (Dan Tappin) on Apr 29, 2002 at 7:59:35 am Re: Headless (non)operation on OSX by Alan McCarty on Apr 29, 2002 at 9:49:13 am Re: Headless (non)operation on OSX by Global Homes Webmaster on Apr 29, 2002 at 9:57:08 am Re: Headless (non)operation on OSX by Warren Michelsen on Apr 29, 2002 at 8:17:32 pm