fmouse
February 19th, 2012, 01:02 AM
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 on a desktop system. If my monitor is on, everything boots nicely as it's supposed to.
When I'm away from home I turn off everything including my monitor, my Ubuntu desktop system - everything except my Linux in-house router/gateway. I have a VPN to said router/gateway, and can run a wake-on-LAN command to bring up my desktop box so I can get to files I need on it. If my monitor is on, this works fine, the system comes up, and I can ssh into the desktop box and do what I need to do. If my monitor is off, however, the system won't boot. I found out that in this state, grub has presented a text-mode menu to what it thinks is the effective terminal, and is waiting for a response, which it won't get since the network isn't up at that point. It's either hung, or waiting with a very long timeout.
I used to configure grub all the time, but don't have the bandwidth to figure out the rather complex bootloader file collection use by the grub-pc installed in Ubuntu 11.04. Can anyone tell me how I can tell grub-pc in this Ubuntu to boot normally if there's no monitor connected to the box?
When I'm away from home I turn off everything including my monitor, my Ubuntu desktop system - everything except my Linux in-house router/gateway. I have a VPN to said router/gateway, and can run a wake-on-LAN command to bring up my desktop box so I can get to files I need on it. If my monitor is on, this works fine, the system comes up, and I can ssh into the desktop box and do what I need to do. If my monitor is off, however, the system won't boot. I found out that in this state, grub has presented a text-mode menu to what it thinks is the effective terminal, and is waiting for a response, which it won't get since the network isn't up at that point. It's either hung, or waiting with a very long timeout.
I used to configure grub all the time, but don't have the bandwidth to figure out the rather complex bootloader file collection use by the grub-pc installed in Ubuntu 11.04. Can anyone tell me how I can tell grub-pc in this Ubuntu to boot normally if there's no monitor connected to the box?