Seleting the runlevel at kernel boot time: Hardy

[Mumia W.]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. I'll try to find out what upstart is and if there is a way to 
control it from the kernel command line.