On Sunday 18 April 2010 18:50:01 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:04:37 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > That's what I do. I have /etc/runlevels/no-x/ which contains all > > the services I want started if I boot a CLI-only system. It's > > sometimes handy to have all the virtual consoles available, so > > single mode doesn't help here. > > That's whay I used to do until I found the gentoo=nox option, it > saves maintaining an extra runlevel.
But X isn't the only thing I don't run when not running X, if you see what I mean. Only about 3 other things differ at the moment, but I leave the possibilities open. And I don't have to type anything at the grub command prompt. And maintaining the other run level is not arduous anyway, as changes occur only when I install or remove a system service. Rarely, in other words. To each his own, of course, as ever. -- Rgds Peter.
