| 1 |
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 20:16 +0400, Yahya Mohammad wrote: |
| 2 |
> I want to add a grub menu entry that will load the system without |
| 3 |
> starting gdm, just like the livecd does when the 'nox' kernel parameter is |
| 4 |
> passed. I poked around the CD a bit to figure out how that's done but |
| 5 |
> failed. Does the kernel have to be modified to do this? Thanks for any |
| 6 |
> pointers. |
| 7 |
|
| 8 |
I don't know what the livecd does but you certainly don't have to modify |
| 9 |
a kernel to do something like that. |
| 10 |
|
| 11 |
The way I see it there are two possible solutions: |
| 12 |
|
| 13 |
1. Create a new runlevel, say "nox" and just don't put xdm in the |
| 14 |
runlevel. The drawback to this is you have to maintain another |
| 15 |
runlevel. |
| 16 |
|
| 17 |
2. Edit /etc/init.d/xdm (or better yet, make a copy of your own and edit |
| 18 |
it) that simply checks for the existence of, say "nox" in /proc/cmdline |
| 19 |
and exit immediately if so. |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
Then change your grub config as appropriate. |
| 22 |
|
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
-- |
| 25 |
gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
Archives