On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 17:00 +0100, Luciano Rocha wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:13:17AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 16:23 +0100, Luciano Rocha wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:16:14AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 09:07 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > > > No, it's a function of init. The kernel passes unrecognized options to > > > the init process, and init checks for a runlevel specification (1-5, > > > single, -b, s, etc.). > > > > I believe you, but I'd still like to see where this is documented. My > > point is not that there's anything wrong with this, but that the > > required info is not easy to come by. > > > > It's in the manual page for init: > > $ man init > ... > BOOTFLAGS > It is possible to pass a number of flags to init from the boot monitor > (eg. LILO). Init accepts the following flags: > > -s, S, single > Single user mode boot. In this mode /etc/inittab is examined and > the bootup rc scripts are usually run before the single user mode > shell is started. > > 1-5 Runlevel to boot into. > > -b, emergency > Boot directly into a single user shell without running any other > startup scripts. Correct. Thank you. poc
