[sclug] ubuntu runlevels from grub

[Alex Butcher]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Dickon Hood wrote:

> : I wrote some scripts I wanted to fire off from the grub menu by using
> : the old way of passing a runlevel number at the end of the line

[...]

> Umm.  I cannot for the life of me think why on earth you'd ever want to do
> such a thing.
>
> Can you enlighten me as to what you're doing this for?  It all seems
> horribly odd to me.

I've done something similar for a laptop, before DHCPCD starting timing out
if it couldn't find a DHCP server, and also if I wanted to boot a machine
with an alternate X config file using different modelines and driver (vesa,
for TV out). I did both by grepping /proc/cmdline, though, rather than
abusing runlevels.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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