Seleting the runlevel at kernel boot time: Hardy

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 19:15 -0500, Mumia W. wrote:
> Mumia W. wrote:
> > I'm running Ubuntu Hardy. In Debian Etch, I'm always able to select my 
> > desired runlevel by appending a number onto the kernel boot command line 
> > in Grub, e.g. "... root=/dev/sda1 ro 3"
> > 
> > Three would be my desired runlevel. However, Ubuntu Hardy ignores this, 
> > and it always sends me into runlevel two. How do I use the kernel 
> > command line to tell Ubuntu what runlevel I desire?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas at all?

Ubuntu uses upstart which is an even based init process. With the SysV
backward compatibility, you can create an /etc/inittab file with a
single line like:

initdefault:3

This will set the default bootstrap runlevel to 3 instead of 2.
Runlevel 2 is hardwired in the /etc/event.d/rc-default script.  I would
imagine this hack will change in future releases of Ubuntu as the
backward compatibility with syvinit is deprecated.
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