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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Booting w/o video... Date: 19 Feb 1996 00:39:36 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4g8gs8$93e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31211B80.6819@vianet.com.mx> <312447FB.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > Is any way of booting freebsd without a video card?... > > Yes, but you need to install special boot-blocks on the machine. Additionally, the only BIOS i know of that will boot without a video card is AMI. Of course :), you first need a video card to tell the BIOS that it should not care for a video card. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)