which takes precedence?

[Albert Graham]

Hi Tony,

Grub takes precedence, for example you may need to boot into runlevel 1 
to fix a problem so in this case inittab must be ignored.

Albert.


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?