How to start "init 3" at boot

[Kenneth Porter]

On Saturday, April 15, 2006 6:43 AM +0200 "A.J. Bonnema" 
<abonnema at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> AFAIK this is done from inittab, not grub. So.....

> If you mean a different feature, I am very interested to know what you
> did in FC3.

<http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.html>

Then read "man init".

The kernel passes arguments it doesn't consume itself to the default 
initial process (ie. init) and init recognizes a digit argument as the 
runlevel to enter.

(I didn't know the details either. I just googled for "linux kernel 
arguments".)