[Mageia-dev] bug, omission or feature

Sun Jun 3 19:09:17 CEST 2012

On 2012/06/03 17:46 (GMT+0100) Colin Guthrie composed:
+
+>>>  /etc/inittab is no longer used or read.
+
+>>>  For single user mode now-a-days we boot to rescue.target (this is done
+>>>  automatically if you just put a 1 at the end of the kernel command line
+>>>  to support "runlevel 1").
+
+>>  where do I change initial
+>>  runlevel not for one boot but for a while? With inittab it was easy to
+>>  change the default runlevel.
+
+> The tools in drak* still let you configure this, so that's the "easy" way.
+
+Not when X is broken.
+
+> For real men (and women), we just change the
+> /etc/systemd/system/default.target symlink to point at whatever target
+> we want to use by default.
+
+So instead of changing one character in a file that has been standard for 
+decades, one must figure out the name of the desired target file, then type a 
+lot so as to get the required symlink.
+
+> For ad-hoc changes you can pass systemd.unit=foo.target on the kernel
+> command line
+
+Ditto.
+
+>  or just append a runlevel number or the words "single" or
+> "failsafe" as before.
+
+Thank God everything that used to make good sense hasn't been replaced by 
+something more complicated. I've taken to including a digit on every Grub 
+kernel line quite some time ago.
+-- 
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+
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