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Re: Booting without VGA Card
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
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Dr Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:34:32 +0000
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On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Genie Jhang wrote:

> Hello
>
> I installed SL 5.4 today to build additional nodes for our small cluster
>
> which are simulating neutron detector with geant4.
>
> 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.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison		Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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