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Adam wrote: |
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> On 04/18/10 15:21, Dale wrote: |
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>> Adam wrote: |
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>>> I want to choose console or X from grub, so i'm thinking i'll do |
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>>> something like 'rc-update delete xdm 4' and then pass softlevel=4 to my |
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>>> grub boot line, to make runlevel 4 a console runlevel. Is that the right |
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>>> way to do it? |
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>> Gentoo doesn't use those runlevels. You need to read this: |
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>> man rc-update |
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>> Gentoo comes with the following runlevels: |
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>> root@smoker ~ # ls /etc/runlevels/ |
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>> total 5 |
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>> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 152 Jun 11 2008 . |
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>> drwxr-xr-x 81 root root 4832 Apr 18 00:16 .. |
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>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 368 Jun 11 2008 boot |
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>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Apr 9 20:05 default |
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>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Jun 11 2008 nonetwork |
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>> root@smoker ~ # |
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>> It generally boots to default. You can change that on the kernel boot |
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>> line but with one of the above instead of a 4 as you posted. |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=4 |
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> So gentoo does use the numerical runlevels (because that's what init |
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> uses) as well as the gentoo runlevels you've shown. It looks like it |
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> just maps the numbers to the names in inittab; |
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> |
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> l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown |
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> l0s:0:wait:/sbin/halt -dhp |
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> l1:1:wait:/sbin/rc single |
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> l2:2:wait:/sbin/rc nonetwork |
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> l3:3:wait:/sbin/rc default |
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> l4:4:wait:/sbin/rc default |
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> l5:5:wait:/sbin/rc default |
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> l6:6:wait:/sbin/rc reboot |
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> l6r:6:wait:/sbin/reboot -dk |
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> so, i guess this means i should point l4 to a custom runlevel in |
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> /etc/runlevels that is the same as default with the exception that xdm |
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> is removed... I'm assuming the linux kernel wont understand the gentoo |
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> named runlevels, and therefore using those names in grub wouldnt work. |
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If you want to boot to the single runlevel, just add softlevel=single to |
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the end of the boot line in grub. You can do this in the config or edit |
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the boot line when grub comes up and it should work fine. I have never |
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used the number runlevels. It may work but I have never done it that |
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way so I can't really say one way or the other. |
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You can also create custom runlevels if you need them. I created one a |
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while back to play with and I just added the directory and added the |
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services I wanted in there. That should work fine. There may be other |
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ways to create them as well. |
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Also, you can use eselect to manage this as well. The module is called |
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rc. I don't use it but that is the up and coming way to do it. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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