Changing Run levels

[S. Gongola]

On Fri March 19 2004 11:19 am, Ben Steeves wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 12:04, Mark Haney wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:59:59 -0500, shane c branch <scbranch at barton.edu>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > As I understand you, you wish to boot to runlevel 3 as default?
> >
> > Well yes and no.  I do need to boot to runlevel 3 one time to get the
> > VMware tools installed, but want to keep it at RL 5 the rest of the time.
>
> Assuming you're using GRUB, you just:
>
> 1) From the main screen, highlight the kernel you want to boot and press
> 'e'.
> 2) Highlight the line starting with 'kernel' (the second line in most
> default stanzas), and press 'e' again.
> 3) Append a '1', '3', or '5' to the line, depending on what run-mode you
> want, and hit enter.
> 4) Press 'b' to boot from the altered stanza.
You need to append the work init then the number 3
>
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