2009/4/3 Aldo Foot <lunixer@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Sharpe, Sam J > <sam.sharpe+lists.redhat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 2009/4/3 Aldo Foot <lunixer@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Nigel Henry >>> <cave.dnb2m97pp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On F9 I had to press the "I" a few times to enter interactive startup, on >> <snip> >>> The current approach is not practical, there should be a custom timeout to >>> give time to press 'i". >>> ~af >> >> I don't think interactive startup should exist at all. >> >> If you want to disable services, use Rescue Mode or Single User Mode. >> When a system is booted to multi-user-graphical I want the same >> scripts running as last time thankyou, regardless of any finger >> mashing by the user. > > I'll respectfully disagree. Under the right conditions it could be beneficial > to have the interactive boot option. Name one that can't be solved with single user or rescue mode... I'm not trying to fight you, but I am interested in this discussion as I've never seen the point of Interactive Init. > Also, let's don't forget that there are a bunch of systems out there that don't > need a graphical environment to do their job. Sorry, I picked runlevel 5 as an example, because most of the systems co-located with my fingermashers are graphical. The same applies to runlevel 3, except those machines generally don't have keyboards and monitors which restricts tinkering - I would prefer they are consistently booted and the option to hit i was not available - is there an easy way to turn it off that I have missed? > I think most will agree that the finger mashing is very impractical. Yes. I prefer to hit this at the grub menu: e<DOWN>e<END> single<ENTER>b It feels a lot more reliable than hammering one key until you get the Yes/No/Continue prompt! -- Sam -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
