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How to fool a laptop into thinking a monitor is connected?
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On windows I think you need a HDMI dummy plug as others mentioned here before but Linux has to have a way to run headless. You can run Linux in Qemu without a connected display. If you find anything on why it’s not booting please let me know!
Linux supports it, but (some?) motherboards won't boot without a display connected. I had this issue recently when I converted my old PC to a NAS and I had to buy a dummy plug.
It's definitely only some. ASRock motherboards almost always allow headless boot, MSI almost never do iirc, Gigabyte and Asus are really model specific
I had this issue as well where my mobo wouldn't boot without a GPU. In my case a BIOS update resolved the issue (it just beeps angrily a few times but continues booting).