On Sunday 18 April 2010 07:21:56 Dale wrote: > Adam wrote: > > I want to choose console or X from grub, so i'm thinking i'll do > > something like 'rc-update delete xdm 4' and then pass softlevel=4 to my > > grub boot line, to make runlevel 4 a console runlevel. Is that the right > > way to do it? > > Gentoo doesn't use those runlevels. You need to read this:
Well said Dale. Numbered runlevels a-la ancient init are a stupid idea, were always a stupid idea and always will be a stupid idea. I have never seen anyone actually use them! Here's what people do use: - a boot config for single user/maintenance (fix stuff with this) - what you use everyday. Possibly also - another config for some rare circumstance (like occasionally not running X for some reason. But most folk just stop xdm to do that) > > man rc-update > > Gentoo comes with the following runlevels: > > r...@smoker ~ # ls /etc/runlevels/ > total 5 > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 152 Jun 11 2008 . > drwxr-xr-x 81 root root 4832 Apr 18 00:16 .. > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 368 Jun 11 2008 boot > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Apr 9 20:05 default > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Jun 11 2008 nonetwork > r...@smoker ~ # > > It generally boots to default. You can change that on the kernel boot > line but with one of the above instead of a 4 as you posted. > > Post back if you get stumped along the way. > > Dale > > :-) :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
