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I want to run my NetBSD box without a monitor, but it won boot since the kernel cannot sense the monitor. Can this be done?

April 26, 2017boot Box Kernel monitor NetBSD run sense

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I want to run my NetBSD box without a monitor, but it won boot since the kernel cannot sense the monitor. Can this be done?

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Yes. From Jack Culpepper (jack@cs.hmc.edu): Look for the pin numbers on the monitor connector and short out pins 4 & 11 (monitor sense lines) with a paper clip. (I’ve been using this for months.) Another method is to spend $25 on an SVGA adapter that can be configured to emulate a mac display. However, you probably cannot boot a machine which lacks any kind of video hardware at all (e.g. an older II-series Mac without a NuBus video card), since it may not even boot into Mac OS in this configuration. For more information on the video connector pin configurations, Apple has a TechNote on the subject: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/hw/hw_30.html Thanks to Nigel Pearson (nigel@ind.tansu.com.au) for the above pointer.