On 04/18/10 15:21, Dale wrote: > Adam wrote: >> I want to choose console or X from grub, so i'm thinking i'll do >> something like 'rc-update delete xdm 4' and then pass softlevel=4 to my >> grub boot line, to make runlevel 4 a console runlevel. Is that the right >> way to do it? >> >> > > Gentoo doesn't use those runlevels. You need to read this: > > man rc-update > > Gentoo comes with the following runlevels: > > r...@smoker ~ # ls /etc/runlevels/ > total 5 > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 152 Jun 11 2008 . > drwxr-xr-x 81 root root 4832 Apr 18 00:16 .. > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 368 Jun 11 2008 boot > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Apr 9 20:05 default > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Jun 11 2008 nonetwork > r...@smoker ~ # > > It generally boots to default. You can change that on the kernel boot > line but with one of the above instead of a 4 as you posted.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=4 So gentoo does use the numerical runlevels (because that's what init uses) as well as the gentoo runlevels you've shown. It looks like it just maps the numbers to the names in inittab; l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown l0s:0:wait:/sbin/halt -dhp l1:1:wait:/sbin/rc single l2:2:wait:/sbin/rc nonetwork l3:3:wait:/sbin/rc default l4:4:wait:/sbin/rc default l5:5:wait:/sbin/rc default l6:6:wait:/sbin/rc reboot l6r:6:wait:/sbin/reboot -dk so, i guess this means i should point l4 to a custom runlevel in /etc/runlevels that is the same as default with the exception that xdm is removed... I'm assuming the linux kernel wont understand the gentoo named runlevels, and therefore using those names in grub wouldnt work.
