On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 09:07 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 09:21 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:33 +0000, tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > > I have a machine running SMP whose grub entry is > > > > > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-55.ELsmp ro > > > root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet 3 > > > > > > (and uname -a: Linux 8mile 2.6.9-55.ELsmp #1 SMP) BUT Runlevel N 5 > > > > > > I used to set runlevel by making id 3 in /etc/inittab: > > > > > > id:3:initdefault: > > > > > > Management said not to use inittab but rather grub.conf. Explains > > > before why even when > > > id in inittab was 5, the runlevel would be 3. > > > > > > But now, in grub.conf there is the 3 (as above) at the end of the > > > kernel line (5 in inittab) and > > > it is coming up in level 5 after reboot. So which has precedence, > > > inittab or grub.conf and > > > why is it coming up 5? > > > > Pardon my ignorance, but where is it documented that you can set the > > runlevel from the grub.conf line? It doesn't appear to be in the grub > > manual, the init manual, or kernel-parameters.txt. AFAIK all you can do > > is specify a different binary instead of the default /sbin/init. > > > > So it would be coming up in level 5 because that's what your inittab > > says. > > > > poc > > > > When the system comes up and you see a display of kernel boot lines. > If yo have hidemenu uncommented in grub.conf you may have to hit return > during the initial screen to see this. > > At the bottom of the boot list there are instructions on how to edit a > boot line. If the line is edited and the number 3 is placed at the end > of the line the system will boot to run level 3. A 1 will get eh system > to boot to run level 1 and so on. So this is a function of rhgb, not of init, i.e. it's some RedHat-specific magic. OT: It's distressing to me as an old Unix user that 'man rhgb' doesn't work. Even worse, 'man -k rhgb' gives: rhgb (rpm) - Red Hat Graphical Boot implying that there is a man page, but I don't have it. Is there some secret RPM I have to install? poc
