Submitted 31-Aug-00 by Jesper Holmberg:
> Well, what would be the difference between running init 3/5 and a soft
> reboot? In my opinion, it's the same thing. Both ways, init is the
> first process to start. Not rereading bios settings is the only difference I
> can think of. Init is in effect a reboot.
Umm.... just changing runlevel with init also means no processing of all the
instructions in /etc/rc.d/rc.{sysinit,serial,firewall} which define the
basic operation conditions for the system. These include mounting
partitions and swap, setting the clock and hostname. initiating devfs,
isapnp detection, loading of modules from /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, starting
RAID devices, and execution of the mandrake_everytime script. So yes, there
is quite a lot of difference between the two ideas.
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