From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 Description of problem: I'm trying to install Severn onto a headless server. I've used the vnc installation option, and when I boot the system, it's in run level 5, the firstboot service starts, and I'm dead in the water. I'd like the ability to configure the system to boot into run level 3, without X. If the firstboot functionality is considered essential, please think about starting a VNC server at startup when a system has no local X display capability. I will happily do a 'vncviewer -via hostname :1' in order to get into the machine using the root password. (Okay, I'm not completely DITW. I can ssh into the machine, edit inittab to put me into run level 3, reboot the machine, and then proceed from there). But if I didn't have ssh installed... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install severn on a headless machine 2. reboot after install Actual Results: The system init scripts will run, until firstboot starts. Then no further progress is made, and I cannot finish booting the machine. Expected Results: I'd like to be able to specify (at installation time) that any subsystem that relies on X not run, or at least not attempt to run on the "head" of a headless system. Then I can log into the machine, perform my system configurations, and start use. Additional info:
What type of installation class did you pick (server, workstation, custom) ?
I don't recall offhand, but I suspect it was a custom installation.
Ok, so in custom or server installation, there's a screen near the end of the installation that allows you to pick whether you want graphical or text bootup. If you pick text bootup, you'll boot into runlevel 3 and skip firstboot altogether. So if you've got a headless machine, that's the setting you want to pick.
Closing since I think that giving the user the choice of using text or GUI startup in the installer should solve this problem.
I just did a server install of Fedora Core test3 (severn3). I did not get a screen asking for GUI vs. text startup. So I still get a system installed that boots into firstboot.
I have added a text mode interface to firstboot for Fedora Core 2. Please reopen this bug report if you still see this bug in Fedora Core 2 when it is released (probably in April).