Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Runlevels while booting
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:54:00
Message-Id: 200512211546.36011.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Runlevels while booting by Ryan Viljoen
1 Am Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2005 15:30 schrieb ext Ryan Viljoen:
2
3 > Anyway I noticed that when SuSe boots, after its gone through the boot
4 > runlevel it switches to runlevel 5 and loads up kdm while completing
5 > runlevel 3. Now this is great cause you can login and such assuming
6 > you dont have any network dependent login services (NIS and NFS
7 > shares).
8 >
9 > So I was wondering if this was possible with Gentoo. Its not as simple
10 > as adding xdm to the boot runlevel. dont worry I tried...
11
12 Gentoo extends init's runlevel concept with its own concept, called
13 softlevels. You can create as many softlevels as you like/need.
14
15 Just create an new directory for your runlevel in /etc/runlevels, populate
16 it with the services you want to start in this runlevel (rc-update add
17 myservice myrunlevel) and update your bootloader config so that you can
18 select the desired runlevel at boot time, i.e. for grub you would add
19 "softlevel=myrunlevel" to the "kernel" line.
20
21 HTH...
22
23 Dirk
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