[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

Mon Apr 8 23:31:42 CEST 2013

'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 08/04/13 13:20 did gyre and gimble:
+> Frank Griffin skrev 4.4.2013 19:12:
+>> On 04/04/2013 10:59 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
+>>> Not much progress.  My usual method of editing the kernel line to get
+>>> a level 3 boot doesn't work - same blank (but lit) screen.  Failsafe
+>>> appears to be doing better - at least I can see messages.  It reaches
+>>>
+>>> Reached target Multi-User
+>>> Reached target Graphical Interface
+>>>
+>>> and there it sticks.  Does that give any clue as to what is failing,
+>>> and what I need to do to rescue the system?
+>>>
+>> Boot a rescue disk and mount your root partition.  In
+>> /etc/systemd/system you should see a symlink like:
+>>
+>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   36 Mar 29 11:00 default.target ->
+>> /lib/systemd/system/runlevel5.target
+>>
+>> Just remove this and re-symlink to /lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target
+>> and you should get a level 3 boot.
+> 
+> 
+> It's actually easier than that.
+> 
+> Add "systemd.unit=multi-user.target" on kernel / grub command line and
+> ith will boot to runlevel 3
+
+Or simply add a "3" onto the command line as has been the case for many
+years :)
+
+Of course I should probably discourage that seeing as "3" is pretty
+meaningless in absolute terms these days! :)
+
+Col
+
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