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I followed the Handbook page [1] to set up an additional runlevel for a |
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different network environment. The first part, adding and customizing |
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the services with rc-update in the new level, went swimmingly. Now I'm |
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at the line |
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> Edit the bootloader configuration and add a new entry for the offline |
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> runlevel. In that entry, add softlevel=offline as a boot parameter. |
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In my case the bootloader is grub2. Looking at the way |
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/boot/grub/grub.cfg is generated, the Linux menu entries come from |
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/etc/grub.d/10_linux, and that script is hardwired to create exactly one |
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normal entry per kernel version, plus maybe a rescue entry that boots |
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into single user. There is no provision for additional multiuser |
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entries. So I have to create my own, but this seems to imply I have to |
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do one of: |
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1. modify 10_linux itself: huge, complex, dangerous |
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2. copy 10_linux into a new file and edit just the single line with boot |
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params: ugly, fragile if 10_linux changes |
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Any other way? I dream of somehow "referencing" 10_linux with just the |
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable changed. |
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[1] |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Working/Initscripts#Using_softlevel |
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