Ubuntu 16.04.1LTS boot

[Chris]

On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 17:03 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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_fo
> r_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
> 
Thank you Mark, Colin and Ralf. I've been booting into the non-upstart
kernel as I've always chose the generic entry also. That was just a new
grub entry for me after the upgrade to 16.04LTS. Now to get all these
other issues figured out, and there are a ton of them

Chris

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Chris
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Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, kernel 4.4.0-36-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 11 18:01:55 UTC 2016