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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- > -- Chris O'Connell http://outlookoutbox.blogspot.com
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