[NTLUG:Discuss] Change run level at boot time

[Robert Citek]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Rusty Haddock <rusty at fe2o3.lonestar.org> wrote:
> Leroy Tennison wrote:
>    >booting with grub.  I want to be able to press 'e' to edit the command
>    >prompt and change the runlevel.  I can't seem to find a clear example of
>
> http://www.brunolinux.com/05-Configuring_Your_System/Grub_boot_runlevel-3.html

"NOTE: Runlevel 3 does not work in Ubuntu ..."

Works just fine for me:

$ runlevel
N 3

$ cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-26-generic root=/dev/mapper/rootvg-rootlv ro 3

$ cat /etc/issue.net
Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS

Regards,
- Robert