which takes precedence?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:33 +0000, tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:
>  
> I have a machine running SMP whose grub entry is
> 
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-55.ELsmp ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet 3
> 
> (and uname -a: Linux 8mile 2.6.9-55.ELsmp #1 SMP) BUT    Runlevel N 5
> 
> I used to set runlevel by making id 3 in /etc/inittab:
> 
>            id:3:initdefault:
> 
> Management said not to use inittab but rather grub.conf.  Explains
> before why even when
> id in inittab was 5, the runlevel would be 3.
> 
> But now, in grub.conf there is the 3 (as above) at the end of the
> kernel line (5 in inittab) and
> it is coming up in level 5 after reboot.  So which has precedence,
> inittab or grub.conf and
> why is it coming up 5?

Pardon my ignorance, but where is it documented that you can set the
runlevel from the grub.conf line? It doesn't appear to be in the grub
manual, the init manual, or kernel-parameters.txt. AFAIK all you can do
is specify a different binary instead of the default /sbin/init.

So it would be coming up in level 5 because that's what your inittab
says.

poc