Ubuntu 16.04.1LTS boot

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:24:18 -0500, Chris wrote:
>This may be a lame newbie question but here goes. Should I be booting
>into the 'Upstart' kernel or the Generic? Here's the one I'm running at
>the moment
>
>4.4.0-36-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 11 18:01:55 UTC 2016 x86_64
>x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>Which was just updated yesterday.

Hi,

since I edit my grub.cfg manually, I wasn't aware that there is such an
option. A short web research lead to

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemdForUpstartUsers#Switch_to_upstart_for_a_single_boot

It's not a different kernel, it just allows to chose the init system.

AFAIK all major distros switched to systemd. Unless you don't have a
good reason to prefer upstart over systemd, you should stay with
systemd, which is the default as of 15.04 [1]. IOW don't chose the
option to use upstart.

  [root at moonstudio weremouse]# lsb_release -r
  Release:	16.04
  [root at moonstudio weremouse]# ls -Gg /sbin/init
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 20 Jul 12 18:28 /sbin/init -> /lib/systemd/systemd
  [root at moonstudio weremouse]# pgrep systemd|head -1
  1

Regards,
Ralf

[1]
"Ubuntu finished the switch to systemd as its default init system in
version 15.04 (Vivid Vervet), with the exception of Ubuntu Touch." -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstart