[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI without a console?

[Carl Brewer]

On 9/05/2023 11:38 am, Gary Mills wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 08:17:42AM +1000, Carl Brewer wrote:
>>
>> Three of them. Have been running OI since it was OS, oh, almost 20 years
>> now?  One of my three is about that old too.  Rock solid.
>>
>> I found I had to use an HDMI "dummy" to get the newer ones to boot.
> 
> I wondered if an HDMI console was somehow special.  The system I'm
> using has only HDMI and Display Port connectors for a monitor.  It has
> no VGA connector.

I only found out after setting a new (2 years ago now) generic consumer 
PC motherboard up as a server, doing all the setup etc on a bench with 
an HDMI monitor, then popping it in a rack with a KVM switch and it 
would not boot.
The KVM switch didn't provide enough info to the graphics port for it to 
start cleanly. It would just hang.

I did write about it here on this list at the time, but the archive is 
AWOL and I can't find my notes.

Quite annoying!  Maybe someone on this list knows what sort of KVM 
switch might provide enough for a HDMI card to behave at boot time?  I 
don't know the terminology, so search engines are not being kind! I'd 
really like to be able to use one.

Carl