Greg Wooledge composed on 2018-02-21 13:11 (UTC-0500): > If you simply want to boot *once* into multi-user.target without > changing the default target, you can edit the kernel command line > and add the option "systemd.unit=multi-user.target".
> Which is a whole lot more typing than adding the option "2" used to > be, but is otherwise almost 100% equivalent. 5 works to override multi-user.target. 3 works to override graphical.target. Systemd aliases the old runlevels to its targets, so that 'init [S,1-6]' and 'telinit [S,1-6]' can more or less work like they used to with SysV. With RedHat's rpm runlevels, 3 nominally meant everything except GUI, with 2 nominally meaning multiuser without networking, but a lot of rpm distros included basic networking in 2 and 3 was distinguished to include most services that depend on functioning network. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/