[NTLUG:Discuss] Ubuntu won't boot without monitor

[Robert Citek]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Any ideas on how to get around this?  I just want it to boot with the
>  same parameters it normally has and do its thing.  Once the error is
>  made, the only way to get it back to normal is to do a
>  "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg".
>
>  I just want to disable the monitor detect function on boot up.

If there's no monitor hooked up, you could disable gdm:

$ sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf
$ sudo sysv-rc-conf --list gdm
$ sudo sysv-rc-conf --level 2 gdm off

I'm assuming you're using the default runlevel of 2.  Adjust
accordingly if that's not correct.

Regards,
- Robert