[NTLUG:Discuss] Change run level at boot time

[Preston Hagar]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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


I think what is meant by that is that, by default, in Debian and
Ubuntu run levels 2-5 are all the same.  So the common setup of "run
level 3 is console, run level 5 is graphical" doesn't work in Ubuntu
or Debian (unless you configure it differently ahead of time).  If you
normally boot to run level 5 and instead boot to run level 3, it will
work fine, but it will boot exactly as it would have with run level 5.

http://www.debianadmin.com/debian-and-ubuntu-linux-run-levels.html

Preston