Sorry, I’m not very used with server stuff, if I buy an Intel CPU without an integrated GPU like most Xeon, then I wouldn’t have enough pcie lanes for a GPU because all is taken for nvme drives
Specifically, the motherboard ipmi is powered by aspeed ast2500
If I understood right, that chip will act as a 2d basic graphics card that’s enough to see what happens that day the server is unresponsive
I don’t plan to connect a monitor, it’s just that I’m scared if I break truenas and I can’t connect via ssh, then I could still see the local screen from the management Page on the browser
I mean yeah probably, but you better hope to God that the motherboard has DHCP enabled by default. I don’t know why it wouldn’t, but I’ve seen some stupid configs in my life.
Never ran across a server motherboard that needed an extra PCIe card to plug a video display regardless of the CPU used.
This BMC advertise the remote display feature you seek.
ATi Rage 128 gang.
Install the boot drive in a different machine and then pass it though to a VM. Once in the VM install truenas to the disk.
After that’s completed you are good to go. Just boot up the physical machine and point your browser to Truenas.local
It doesn’t break anything doing this? Especially networking settings?
It shouldn’t
If the motherboard has a built in 2d video card you’ll be fine, otherwise you can try via serial which will be slow. Ipmi can sometimes do video or it’s serial over Lan.
Serial bit will be slow and might not be default so the first bit night be really tricky. Also some systems won’t post with a video card, especially in the consumer world.
I’d personally boot with a GPU then swap it out once the system is correctly configured for ssh access.
