{"id":1209,"date":"2021-07-20T10:30:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T10:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tech-g.com\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2021-07-20T10:30:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T10:30:41","slug":"linux-on-first-generation-i7-with-no-graphics-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/2021\/07\/20\/linux-on-first-generation-i7-with-no-graphics-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux on first generation I7 with no graphics card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Linux would not normally boot as soon as you take away the graphics card, the solution to this is to set it to serial mode, with Grub 2 (Such as debian buster and bullseye), there is no menu.1st file, and you should not edit \/boot\/grub\/grub.cfg by hand, what you need to edit is \/etc\/default\/grub, in this file you will need to <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1- Change GRUB terminal to console and ttyS0. This will provide one GRUB to a monitor display and serial console.<br>2- Remove hidden parameter for avoiding &#8220;no video mode activated&#8221; error. And change GRUB timeout from 8 seconds to 1 second.<br>3-Change linux kernel console to tty1 and ttyS0. This setting will be taken over to userland, and there will be two login prompt for tty1 and ttyS0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On my debian setup, the file looks like this, and it works, but make sure to take a backup of the file just in case before you modify anything<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you will need to run the command<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><code>update-grub<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux would not normally boot as soon as you take away the graphics card, the solution to this is to set it to serial mode, with Grub 2 (Such as debian buster and bullseye), there is no menu.1st file, and you should not edit \/boot\/grub\/grub.cfg by hand, what you need to edit is \/etc\/default\/grub, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}