which takes precedence?

Luciano Rocha strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Mon Apr 7 15:23:54 UTC 2008


On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:16:14AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 09:07 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > At the bottom of the boot list there are instructions on how to edit a
> > boot line. If the line is edited and the number 3 is placed at the end
> > of the line the system will boot to run level 3. A 1 will get eh system
> > to boot to run level 1 and so on.
> 
> So this is a function of rhgb, not of init, i.e. it's some
> RedHat-specific magic.

No, it's a function of init. The kernel passes unrecognized options to
the init process, and init checks for a runlevel specification (1-5,
single, -b, s, etc.).

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lfr
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