Thorsten Kampe wrote: > I'm looking for a solution to "hook" somekind of a boot menu into the > boot process. Something like
One more runlevels may be what you need. Default runlevel is /etc/runlevels/default. Most probably you have a link to /etc/init.d/xdm in it, which starts KDE. Create another subdir, e.g. noxdm beside default. Fill it with 'rc-update add INITDSCRIPT noxdm' with the same links as in default, except xdm. Now modify your /boot/grub/grub.conf or do analog with lilo. Add these three lines to its end: title=Gentoo Linux - noxdm root (hd0,1) kernel (hd0,1)/bzImage-2.6.0 root=/dev/hda6 softlevel=noxdm Note the parameter 'softlevel=noxdm'. This selects the bootscrips in /etc/runlevels/noxdm to be executed instead the scripts in /etc/runlevels/default. By the way, /etc/runlevels/boot are executed anyway before the 'noxdm' or 'default' scripts, you may want to move some common, very basic scripts here. Reboot, select Gentoo Linux - noxm, et voila, no KDE or even X starts. I am using something similar to select between a wireless or wired network connection of my notebook. mg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
