On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Soumava Das wrote:
> Dear friends,
> In this month's PCQ there was an article by Atul Chitnis about
> configuring X-windows using the VESA frame buffer driver. According to the
> article, we are to enter "linux 3 vga=771" at the LILO prompt. Now, why the
> "3" ?? It seems to work fine even without "3" i.e. if we enter "linux vga=771" .
> I will be grateful if anyone (especially Mr. Chitnis ) can clarify .
>
> Yours,
>
> Soumava
>
That 3 is the runlevel of init.If you are running RedHat
distribution, then the default runlevel is 3( I don't know about other
distributions ), that's why it works even without 3.( See /etc/initab file
for more details ).
-Srinath
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