-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/19/2009 02:11 AM, Dan Farrell wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:27:57 +0300 >> Nikos Chantziaras<rea...@arcor.de> wrote: >> >>> On 08/18/2009 02:00 AM, Dale wrote: >>>> I agree, this should be reported so it can be fixed. While >>>> init-/bin/bash would work, it shouldn't be the only option. >>> >>> I filed a bug for it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281850 >>> >> >> In a pinch, you can also use the argument init=/bin/bash to get a >> bash shell up without using init. It's saved me a CD or a heap of >> trouble a few times. > > The real problem is that I can't boot the box into a VM anymore. On > this machine, I have three grub entries: "softlevel=native", > "softlevel=vmware" and "softlevel=xen", each booting a suitable kernel > and moving the right xorg.conf into /etc/X11. That functionality is > lost and is a major problem. >
What I believe you are supposed to do now is edit /etc/inittab, changing the commands to run at init runlevels 2-5 to match the rc runlevel that you want to enter. Then you can pass the proper number on the kernel command line. - -- ABCD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqLaa8ACgkQOypDUo0oQOrc/gCgzZI7V9JGHhZmJogBttlLn2m7 cRoAn1bSwcnmb1KcmqeGqf0VrUdQk9IY =GdBT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
