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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting w/o video...
Date: 19 Feb 1996 00:39:36 GMT
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> > Is any way of booting freebsd without a video card?...
> 
> Yes, but you need to install special boot-blocks on the machine.

Additionally, the only BIOS i know of that will boot without a video
card is AMI.  Of course :), you first need a video card to tell the
BIOS that it should not care for a video card.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)