[Discuss] Genesi EFIKA MX and boot without HDMI plugged in

[omegahalo at gmail.com (Chris O'Connell)]

Dan,

Thanks for the reply.  I looked at your suggestion but found that the EFIKA
MX uses uboot, not GRUB.

Does anyone familiar with UBOOT?
Chris

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Dan Ritter <dsr at tao.merseine.nu> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 02:52:45PM -0500, Chris O'Connell wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I'm about to deploy my first Genesi EFIKA MX box at a site I monitor.
> >  Unfortunately, I've got one nagging issue with these devices:  The boxes
> > don't always boot up without an HDMI monitor plugged in.  I've found a
> work
> > around:
> >
> > # sudo vi /etc/init/gdm.conf
> >
> > Default runlevel in ubuntu 10.4 is 2 so you must change this line
> >
> > stop on runlevel [016]
> >
> > adding "2" at runlevel list
> >
> > stop on runlevel [01*2*6]
> >
> > While correcting my original complaint the problem with this solution
> > is that if there is a monitor plugged in the the only thing that shows
> > up is the GENESI splash screen and I can't use the monitor.
> >
> > Is there a simple fix to get these devices (or Ubuntu 10.04 in
> > general) to boot headless?
>
> Sure.
>
> 1. in /boot/grub/menu.lst or grub.cfg, change defoptions from
> quiet splash to nosplash.
>
> 2. in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf
> blacklist vga16fb
>
> 3. Disable GDM by removing the S..gdm file in your runlevel.
>
> That should do it.
>
> -dsr-
>



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