On 2012/06/03 17:46 (GMT+0100) Colin Guthrie composed:
/etc/inittab is no longer used or read.
For single user mode now-a-days we boot to rescue.target (this is done automatically if you just put a 1 at the end of the kernel command line to support "runlevel 1").
where do I change initial runlevel not for one boot but for a while? With inittab it was easy to change the default runlevel.
The tools in drak* still let you configure this, so that's the "easy" way.
Not when X is broken.
For real men (and women), we just change the /etc/systemd/system/default.target symlink to point at whatever target we want to use by default.
So instead of changing one character in a file that has been standard for decades, one must figure out the name of the desired target file, then type a lot so as to get the required symlink.
For ad-hoc changes you can pass systemd.unit=foo.target on the kernel command line
Ditto.
or just append a runlevel number or the words "single" or "failsafe" as before.
Thank God everything that used to make good sense hasn't been replaced by something more complicated. I've taken to including a digit on every Grub kernel line quite some time ago.
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