which takes precedence?

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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?
> 
A run level as part of the command passed to the kernel takes 
precedence. So Grub would take precedence in this case. The name 
used in /etc/inittab gives you a good clue - it is the default run 
level, and the command line overrides the default.

Mikkel
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