I see you've now experienced the following PR: kern/49398: i386-current GENERIC (i915drmkms) boot hangs if monitor powered off
So, it's not only a monitor not connected, but also a monitor connected but powered off (depending on connection method). This is slightly annoying to me as I would like to have the option to use the console on the machine when needed, but not have to keep the monitor on all the time or reboot it to get more than the plain VGA console. -- |/"\ John D. Baker, KN5UKS NetBSD Darwin/MacOS X |\ / jdbaker[snail]consolidated[flyspeck]net OpenBSD FreeBSD | X No HTML/proprietary data in email. BSD just sits there and works! |/ \ GPGkeyID: D703 4A7E 479F 63F8 D3F4 BD99 9572 8F23 E4AD 1645