* Martin Gramatke (2004-01-04 11:40 +0100) > Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> I'm looking for a solution to "hook" somekind of a boot menu into the >> boot process. Something like > > One more runlevels may be what you need. Default runlevel > is /etc/runlevels/default. Most probably you have a link to /etc/init.d/xdm > in it, which starts KDE.
kdm :-) > Create another subdir, e.g. noxdm beside default. > Fill it with 'rc-update add INITDSCRIPT noxdm' with the same links as in > default, except xdm. > Now modify your /boot/grub/grub.conf or do analog with lilo. Add these three > lines to its end: > title=Gentoo Linux - noxdm > root (hd0,1) > kernel (hd0,1)/bzImage-2.6.0 root=/dev/hda6 softlevel=noxdm > > Note the parameter 'softlevel=noxdm'. This selects the bootscrips > in /etc/runlevels/noxdm to be executed instead the scripts > in /etc/runlevels/default. By the way, /etc/runlevels/boot are executed > anyway before the 'noxdm' or 'default' scripts, you may want to move some > common, very basic scripts here. Aah, thanks. I haven't tried it yet but this is almost exactly what I want. I will remove "/etc/init.d/xdm" from the default runlevel and will create another runlevel "xdm" with the appropriate link to "/etc/init.d/xdm". Just one thing is ugly. Do I really have to copy all the linke from the "boot" and "default" runlevel to the new "xdm"?! This would mean that everytime I "add" or "del" from "boot" or "default" I would have to update "xdm", too. The "default" runlevel already includes the "boot" runlevel. Is there a way to say something like "softlevel=noxdm, include runlevel boot default"? Thanks again, Thorsten -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
