On 12 February 2010 11:34, Dr Andrew C Aitchison <a.c.aitchi...@dpmms.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Genie Jhang wrote: > <snip> >> Our lab cannot afford to buy VGA cards as many as the number of nodes. >> >> So, I decided to build them without VGA card. >> >> (Of course, there's only one for the time of first install and setting.) >> >> After I've done all the thing, shutting off, and I pulled the card out. >> >> But, SL won't boot. > > By default SL has a graphical boot (see the package "rhgb" > and the document /usr/share/doc/rhgb-0.16.4/HOW_IT_WORKS ). > Reading /etc/rc.sysinit I guess that the simplest thing would > be to remove, not not install, rhgb.
There are two requirements for a "headless" server with RHEL 5 / CentOS 5 and so, by extrapolation, SL 5. The first is to remove the rhgb package (or, at the minimum, remove the reference to it from the kernel line in your /etc/grub.conf file), as Andrew has mentioned above and the second is to comment out (or remove) the "splashimage=" line which you will also find in your /etc/grub.conf file. Alan.
