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 1O3Mxn-00086N-H2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:22:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 902B6E0855; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:21:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f216.google.com (mail-gx0-f216.google.com [209.85.217.216]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C02E0855 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:21:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk8 with SMTP id 8so2160118gxk.9 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:21:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=e8J4tIXmm3rpikO5umDdSGhy0KHauJ1kAyD6X0OPTSw=; b=R1qXwN2lz4Hq9n/+de18iOgENi9+vJr21B9LUWD2YbC86rQiDYm+8yqd3EA5dE9W3x z3X/nzea7fzhsCvJSy+5T84vdDMBpSQ3aNwYfptL6M2QTSRffhMHctFNK5gFFb6cfJn4 YaiGxtlLWCseXM8JpXi9CaWsodsTGPRkVNajo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=q0ZgWFoN9oK0rluF3UDFBQPnradOOnHa1fjQWYZ3iEYrrS1Q+b/8zaZyIy8CKjtBgT 2p+v4oiN3SEEdpbFM3bIRQSl7gq9/3iCftjKyoPrACvxgA/I6Ma7wKvPVUOBYjJNbI5X qx7u9wVq4N4EhxJ7TQK4XPbniGPyKp3pBHhZI= Received: by 10.101.143.12 with SMTP id v12mr9729611ann.88.1271568118945; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:21:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-94-36.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.94.36]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d39sm31233841anp.0.2010.04.17.22.21.58 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:21:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BCA96F4.6070305@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:21:56 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100409 Gentoo/2.0.4-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.4 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Are runlevels 3 4 5 the same? References: <4BCA9412.9070606@jaftan.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4BCA9412.9070606@jaftan.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 666bc75a-13bd-4915-88e9-84a46cac7d3a X-Archives-Hash: e5b5e78a431b55c6928c0f4356a3409f 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: root@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 root@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. Post back if you get stumped along the way. Dale :-) :-)