How to boot computer without any video card

Question

I have a pc with centOs installed. I want to treat it as a server. Then I remove the video card from that pc , but I can never boot it again

Motherboard: Gigabyte z77 d3sh

CPU: Xeon e3 1230 v2

When I plug the video card out, the computer never boots (because there is no video card, I can't see any messages).

How can I boot the computer without the video card ?

I have tried to find something in bios, but I cannot find what to set.

What do you mean without video card? Are you going to control it remotely? It shouldn't matter if there is one, the computer must boot without it just fine — Ashtray, Aug 06 '13 at 09:09
@Alex I have a pc with centOs installed. I want to treat it as a server. Then I remove the video card from that pc , but I can never boot it again. — jilen, Aug 06 '13 at 09:10
So.. with a video card everything worked? Could you ssh to it? — Ashtray, Aug 06 '13 at 09:12
Try to boot with a graphics card and have a look at this file: /boot/grub/menu.lst and find the line about splashimage (comment it out). There can be an issue of hanging at this stage. Could you provide contents of this file? You can share them using: http://pastebin.com/ — Ashtray, Aug 06 '13 at 09:16
@Alex I found no menu.list, superised... , And Now I found /etc/grub.conf, seems the same things as menu.list — jilen, Aug 06 '13 at 09:27
Glad that helped :) Yeah that's basically an alias to /boot/grub/grub.conf — Ashtray, Aug 06 '13 at 09:41
Related (but not duplicate) question: "Is it possible to RDP into Windows Server 2008 on a machine without any video card or integrated graphics?" — David Cary, Apr 28 '14 at 16:49

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 06 '13 at 09:40

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Try to boot with a graphics card and have a look at this file: /boot/grub/grub.conf and find the line about splashimage (comment it out). There can be an issue of hanging at this stage if you have no graphics adapter.

answered Aug 06 '13 at 09:40

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 06 '13 at 09:40

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You shouldn't need a video card to boot. Try to ssh into it and see if there are any errors through there. If you can't find any errors there, reset all BIOS settings.

answered Aug 06 '13 at 09:40

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