I installed OS11.4 on my old laptop, Compaq Armada E500., 512MB RAM, ATI Rage Mobility.
During installation I chose “minimal server” and added some development packages, lxde and a little more.
I chose to start in runlevel 3 which is full networking without X.
Still, when computer is booted it tries to start Xorg which doesn’t work because of some problem w driver.
The start-up seems to stop there, it never loads completely - seems most things in runlevel 3 are not started (see below)
I can manually login on laptop and fix it - but never permanently, same thing again after reboot.
I have checked /etc/inittab & yast - both states default runlevel is 3.
I have checked services to be started both directly, browsing directory /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/, and with YaST, it is very clear X should not load during boot. But, as said, it does…
I don’t really care about the driver problem right now, I can fix that later when I have more time.
So how do I stop X from getting started automatically?
More info, if needed:
The installation also stopped with message on tty1 “Starting YaST2” and tty8 showing errors with graphics driver (mach64). The system seemed to be installed though, so I simply rebooted (issuing “reboot” from tty2).
Runlevel 3:
ls /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/
K01auditd K01splash_early K03mysql S01microcode.ctl S04splash_early S10cron
K01cpufreq K01stoppreload K03ntp S01random S06kbd S10nscd
K01cron K01SuSEfirewall2_setup K06rpcbind S01SuSEfirewall2_init S07mysql S13stoppreload
K01microcode.ctl K01xdm K08network S02haldaemon S07smartd S13SuSEfirewall2_setup
K01nscd K02acpid S01acpid S02network S07splash
K01random K02haldaemon S01cpufreq S03syslog S07sshd
K01smartd K02kbd S01dbus S04auditd S08ntp
K01splash K03dbus S01earlysyslog S04rpcbind S09apache2
I’m not completely sure where it stops, network is configured but keyboard is wrong and mysql & everything after is not started, so somewhere between S02network and S06kbd.
I’m going to use it as a server for testing purposes so no X is actually needed - however I do want to have X & lxde installed just in case, my Internet connection at home is terribly slow so I need most things I might need in the future installed today.