Fedora Users — Re: which takes precedence?

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/LogVol00rhgb 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. Explainsbefore 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 kernelline (5 in inittab) andit is coming up in level 5 after reboot. So which has precedence,inittab or grub.conf and
why is it coming up 5?

A run level as part of the command passed to the kernel takesprecedence. So Grub would take precedence in this case. The nameused in /etc/inittab gives you a good clue - it is the default runlevel, and the command line overrides the default.


Mikkel
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