which takes precedence?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 09:21 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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
>  

When the system comes up and you see a display of kernel boot lines.
If yo have hidemenu uncommented in grub.conf you may have to hit return
during the initial screen to see this.

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.
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