[Gllug] Debian: Laptop.

[Doug Winter]

On Mon 15 Sep Tethys wrote:
> No, this isn't a hypothetical situation. I've had it happen. Being able
> to just append a "3" to my kernel arguments to get a sane system is a
> really useful thing to be able to do. Similarly, being able to boot to
> run level 2 (full multiuser locally, but no network services) when your
> NIS/NFS server is down is equally handy.

So boot to single user?  It's not like you change graphics cards often,
and runlevel 1 is as good as anything else if all you are using it to do
is change a few files before reboot.

I can imagine it would surprise people from outside linux too, where
runlevel 5 = power off :)

Anyway, I can certainly see your point - it gets discussed occasionally
on the debian lists, and the verdict seems to be that is it's not a bad
idea (it's in LSB too, which is perhaps more important), but they don't
want to change things and surprise all their existing users.

doug.

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