Interesting article on boot ordering

[Enrico Scholz]

bwheadley at earthlink.net ("Bryan W. Headley") writes:

>> There are existing better methods like minit[1] or runit[2] which
>> are implementing dependencies also, which are having very fast
>> startup/shutdown times and which are restarting died processes
>> automatically.
>
> Is there anything which understands init levels in minit?

It is not called 'init level' there, but there exists a similar mechanism.


> E.g., one level runs X, another doesn't?

minit uses argv[1] or 'default' as startup-service. So you can
create e.g. a 'default-X' service and use the kernel-cmdline

| kernel ... init=/sbin/minit default-X




Enrico