If you use an Intel NUC 8 (Bean Canyon) as a headless home server running Debian or Ubuntu, you may have encountered a frustrating issue. You configure everything perfectly with a monitor attached, but the moment you unplug the HDMI cable to put the server on the shelf, the system becomes unresponsive. Even worse, if you try to boot the system without a monitor connected, it might refuse to boot entirely (flashing power LED) or hang before the network initializes. This is a known issue caused by how the Linux Kernel and the Intel graphics driver handle "Hotplug" events and display detection. The system panics because it effectively "loses" its console. Here is how to fix this permanently via software by forcing the Kernel to believe a monitor is always connected. The Solution: Force HDMI Status in GRUB We can solve this by adding a kernel boot parameter that tells the OS to ignore the physical state of the HDMI port and treat it as "Enabled" permanently. Step 1: Identify Your HDMI Port Name First,…

I have a Synology that has only one 2TB harddrive using SHR raid type mainly for surveillance camera recording. It started running out of space and I wanted to upgrade it to a 3TB harddrive but want to reuse the original 2TB drive for other use case. So I used a drive clone tool to clone all the partition of the old 2TB to the new 3TB drive. But I noticed in the Synology Storage Manager, it is still saying the storage pool only has 2TB and can't be expanded or create a new storage pool even though the HDD/SDD section did recognize the new drive to be 3TB. This article will show you how to solve this problem. Step 1: Enable SSH Step 2: SSH into your nas with your user name and password Step 3: run the following command sudo -i type in your password Step 4: run the following command fdisk -l You will see a list of disk info. Find the one that matches your disk size, usually the name is…