[mdrouillard]

Thanks folks. I indeed tried the method in the first response but as mentioned in my OP, the monitor does not wake up. I am not sure what options in the boot.scr or equivalent file that I need to change. I will do the mkcard.sh approach next , but I have to wait for my loaner pc to return to me since I don't have access to a linux machine right now. I can write images to sdcards using my mac but the script requires write access to the sdcard drive and a virtual linux machine can not see the hardware at the lowest level. So, stay tuned.

(Unless someone would like to post to a dropbox folder a image of their sdcard....)

md