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mausy5043

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Registered: 2019-03-27

Posts: 21

Re: System refuses to boot without monitor

Maybe. However you suggested this was not a problem using FreeBSD (and probably a different boot loader)?.

Yes I know. And I found this on a FreeBSD forum: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?to … 6#msg14326
This suggests that FreeBSD had similar issues that could be resolved by setting a bootloader option. But, none of the bootloader options available in Arch seem to work.

Maybe also try "console-mode 0".

Tried it. No joy.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 76,074

Re: System refuses to boot without monitor

Sounds bad indeed.
Most (many) live systems use syslinux, so that would be an easy test (on whether such live distro boots w/o monitor - ensure the testcase doesn't have an infinite wait ;-)

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progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,317

Re: System refuses to boot without monitor

Yeah, that could be an idea. Or maybe your UEFI implementation is buggy and only allows headless boot in the BIOS compatibility mode.

In the BIOS, I've disabled IGD (Integrated Graphics Driver).

You could also try without disabling the IGD.

Last edited by progandy (2019-10-13 16:27:42)

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