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 1QLfLj-000116-IP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 May 2011 17:43:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CAA051C00C; Sun, 15 May 2011 17:41:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 795111C00C for ; Sun, 15 May 2011 17:41:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwj40 with SMTP id 40so3895998wwj.10 for ; Sun, 15 May 2011 10:41:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=HlBtimxxyrboNumpaHuHbbYCNJYFISeZ9V6xK+a+LQk=; b=aOSeZTZcU75Iz+aQo3JosBzz8ZqEvi599suHB08/0GtoeJHO36N15+nka8jBBtB3rd H+5whO/A72Qu8qylVnYepGHGvCVv+p4do7v4OvGhVrwJ4ys/aZbifH6pd8yf1X6n8qYE 56RH3vgMjNa4BcEEV8COJ74TW71WuLphxr0fc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=CmAtW+DppHnqYG7lpuRZy/mpb2Ey+8NV3ETE9CvzDM/pD+n4+dNONUtZ0GwewFRfTs H4xAGMkB0kHCNrqzpT7kz7FKeRczuV2FxYXpMOUj3SyeFaYTGJT198rrhrid1BtT62n9 6UQWBbOYzEhk94Ed7o6OF7BwPY4M8yr09lRfg= Received: by 10.216.235.158 with SMTP id u30mr2215139weq.104.1305481305520; Sun, 15 May 2011 10:41:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-114-244.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.114.244]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g58sm2161760wen.20.2011.05.15.10.41.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 15 May 2011 10:41:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 19:40:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-ck-r1; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Dale References: <4DCFAC1F.1030101@gmail.com> <20110515122145.17259fe8@digimed.co.uk> <4DCFD1C7.3030904@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DCFD1C7.3030904@gmail.com> 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: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105151940.53948.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 07e1f35d14299a143feef476a8ad3c4c Apparently, though unproven, at 15:14 on Sunday 15 May 2011, Dale did opine thusly: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 15 May 2011 05:34:07 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I updated my kernel and had to reboot. I usually boot to single user > >> mode and rebuild my video drivers. > > > > Why not rebuild them before you reboot? It's far more convenient. > > But that doesn't fix the problem I posted. There are times when I need > to boot to something besides the default runlevel. Right now, I can't > do that so I want to fix it so that I can boot to another runlevel. Like what for instance? I can't remember the last time I needed single user mode. In excess of 4 years methinks. It would appear that you are doing something wrong and taking unneccessary steps to accomplish something. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com