Can I boot without GPU ("headless")?

2020-08-28 Thread Henry W. Peterson
Hello, I have several Asus A320M-K motherboards with AMD Ryzen 3 1200 (which does not include a GPU) in very simple computers. I installed OpenBSD on them using a GigaByte GT710 graphics card. After reboot, everything works perfectly. My idea was to install and configure the systems with the g

Re: Can I boot without GPU ("headless")?

2020-08-29 Thread Henry W. Peterson
Thank you both for your answers On Sat Aug 29 00:46:51 2020 PM Daniel Sullivan wrote: >I log into an Edgerouter 4 all the time using the >COM port, and that thing >has no graphics >hardware whatsoever. Should work! I assume that does not have amd64 archictecture. Does it use at least i386 (li

Re: Can I boot without GPU ("headless")?

2020-08-29 Thread Henry W. Peterson
m...@openbsd.org en nombre de Henry W. Peterson Enviado: sábado, 29 de agosto de 2020 11:59 Para: misc@openbsd.org Asunto: Re: Can I boot without GPU ("headless")? Thank you both for your answers On Sat Aug 29 00:46:51 2020 PM Daniel Sullivan wrote: >I log into an Edgerouter 4 all t

Re: Can I boot without GPU ("headless")?

2020-08-29 Thread Henry W. Peterson
To xpetrl : But then I would need to have every computer's serial port connected the whole time, right? As far as I know serial ports are not hot-swappable. To: Stuart Henderson The used graphics card has an Nvidia chipset, GT710, not a Radeon. Since there is no specific drivers for this at

Re: Can I boot without GPU ("headless")?

2020-08-29 Thread Henry W. Peterson
To Ottavio Caruso : It definitely answers the question on how to define com0 as the default console after installation (the /etc/ttys part was specially helpful) and confirms the need to disable vga generic driver. Thank you. To Ian Darwin : I assume that means the software would accept it. Bu

Re: Can I boot without GPU ("headless")?

2020-08-29 Thread Henry W. Peterson
To Ian Darwin : Sorry I didn't answer your first message, you sent it directly to Kenneth Gober with cc to me and I hadn't read it. It is not a problem for me to write commands on the boot prompt after every turning on, that would eliminate the need to modify /etc/boot.conf, right? Althogh I d

Re: Can I boot without GPU ("headless")?

2020-08-29 Thread Henry W. Peterson
To Ian Darwin : But the password has already been entered, that is previous the boot prompt. When I type "set tty com0", would that immediately switch console? I thought it established the console for the single user mode while loading /bsd (typical white letters on a blue background). About

Re: Can I boot without GPU ("headless")?

2020-08-30 Thread Henry W. Peterson
To Greg Thomas : Ok, one final question: Is there a way to make the boot process wait 5 seconds for commands in the vga+keyboard phase but when "set tty com0" then load the kernel automatically? As a little test, I wrote in my personal computer's boot prompt "set tty pc0", it "switches to pc0"

Re: Can I boot without GPU ("headless")?

2020-08-30 Thread Henry W. Peterson
If I write at the boot prompt "set timeout 5" and then "set tty pc0" it waits indefinitely for new commands (as expected). I was asking if there is a way to start a new timeout or instantly boot the kernel after the console switching without typing anything else (to switch to com0, without actu

Re: Can I boot without GPU ("headless")?

2020-08-31 Thread Henry W. Peterson
To "trondd" : It seems you have only read my last message and not the whole thread. If I simply type "boot" with my keyboard, it does not boot because I removed the graphics card and the CPU does not include a GPU. If I configure boot.conf to use com0 as its default console, I will not be abl