From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O3RnX-0002G0-4S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:32:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFDE4E0879; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:31:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8249E0879 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:31:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 13548644D4A for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:31:34 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:31:23 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are runlevels 3 4 5 the same? Message-ID: <20100418113123.022f8562@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201004180909.59301.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <4BCA9412.9070606@jaftan.com.au> <201004180909.59301.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5cvs48 (GTK+ 2.18.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/wDP9R=0io+j4Ool45YplHF9"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 56b21449-457d-4c32-b046-dd7e2e9cf5f6 X-Archives-Hash: 8c2e46dfb893b148751887887b17f4db --Sig_/wDP9R=0io+j4Ool45YplHF9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:09:42 +0100, Mick 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=3D4 to > > my grub boot line, to make runlevel 4 a console runlevel. Is that the > > right way to do it? =20 >=20 > You could create a new default runlevel for this purpose, or you could > try passing the 'nox' option to the kernel, at boot time. There was a > bug filed some time ago because an xinit update broke this option, but > I believe it has been fixed now. Try it and see if this is what you > need. The correct option is gentoo=3Dnox. nox on its own sometimes works, but it's not the proper way to do it. --=20 Neil Bothwick SITCOM: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage --Sig_/wDP9R=0io+j4Ool45YplHF9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkvK34QACgkQum4al0N1GQOxswCghtT+qBWdPVQww1AbtwWYTFjI GwkAn0bkuPEm9FU5rO2NQB2NgjwklG8F =H/zN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/wDP9R=0io+j4Ool45YplHF9--