Tony,
>> Is there a way to choose a runlevel at boot time?
> ...
> You could very easily make some individual config sections in
> /etc/lilo.conf with individual ones booting into a different runlevel by
> adding this to each image config section:
> append="5"
> Warning: I've never tried this myself, but there's no reason why it
> shouldn't work ...
I use this successfully. I normally boot into X. I have lost X boot
capability a few times (playing with the config files).
After using the emergency disk a couple times, I added booting to
multi-user, non-X as one of my choices.
When an 8hr power outage earlier this year crashed my linux (it's first crash),
this trick reduced my recovery time to 1hr of mindless panic + 5min of
methodical fix rather than the ~2hr it had been before.
> ...
> But you can still get in with a linux boot floppy. However, if you
> password the bios and disable floppy disk boots, then it is really starting
> to make it difficult to get into the system.
Warning: If you disable floppy disk boots, you may have no ability to recover
anything after a bus, motherboard, or disk controller failure.
In a work environment, you can do little about physical access to the machine
but can mitigate hard disk loss by frequent backups. (Make sure that your
company actually does make backups before you discover the hard way that it
was judged less expensive to store backups on write-only memory.)
In a home environment, you may find backups less frequent but physical
access restrictions, an incremental addition to limiting physical access
to the inside of your home.
Reporting,
--
Robert Meier
security T T usability
---------------<>--------------
/\
FANUC Robotics North America, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Voice: 1-248-377-7469 Fax: 1-248-377-7363
