Hi all,
Thank you all for your help.
My installation does have a run level of 5. The problem was caused by
the Virtual Box "virtual display card".
When I installed openSUSE 11, I pick a resolution of 1280x1024 with a
color depth of 24 bit.
After I run startx at command prompt, it failed. Then I run sax2 to
change the color depth to 16 bit and reboot, things worked fine (I got
this suggestion from the openSUSE forum).
I am enjoying my Linux experience now.
Once again, thank you all for your help.
Cheers!
Bob
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:55 AM, Carlos E. R.
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The Saturday 2008-07-05 at 01:03 +1200, Bob Builder wrote:
Hi there,
I installed openSUSE 11 on my wife's old laptop. The laptop was too old and too slow so I decided to put install Virtual Box 1.6.2 on my PC running WinXP SP3.
After I installed Virtual Box 1.6.2, I installed openSUSE 11 on my virtual machine (guest). Installation went fine but when I boot using the default option (openSUSE ..blah blah), I got a classic UNIX logon screen instead of a GUI:
***** Welcome to openSUSE 11.0 (i586) - Kernel 2.6.25.5-1.1-pae (tty1).
cbd451 login:
*****
cbd451 is my host name.
Yes, that is all I can see. Where is the GUI?
If I boot the machine using safe mode, I can see the GUI/Logon screen.
So what have I done wrong?
I am a newbie on Linux and my UNIX is skill is quite limited. Your help is very appreciated.
That's not unix, it is linux in text mode. You can log-in as root, then run:
init 3 init 5
and see what errors you get, if any.
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