[TriLUG] unable to boot up in run level 5

[John J. Cruz]

Thanks for your help.

I edited the file /etc/inittab (the id was always set to 5) as you
suggested as follows "id:5:indefault:init 5"  Unfortunatelly this had no
affect, it booted up in run level 3.  Again thanks for your help.

jjc

On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 16:11, rpjday wrote:
> On 6 Jan 2002, John J. Cruz wrote:
> 
> > 
> > This pass Wednesday I downloaded and installed linuxconf (ver 1.26r5-1)
> > and gnome-linuxconf.  Since then I have not been able to auto-operate at
> > run level 5 at bootup, it always comes up on run level 3. I've used 
> > linuxconf
> > inittab
> > telinit 5
> > linux 5 at boot up
> > 
> > None of the above have produced the desired affect.
> > 
> > What statement should I add to lilo.conf to affect a run level of 5
> > instead of 3?  Currently no statement in lilo.conf exists to set the run
> > level.
> > 
> > Is there another file that I should edit to set the run level?
> 
> but of course.  /etc/inittab, the line containing "initdefault".
> change the 3 to 5, and just type "init 5" to get there immediately.
> subsequent reboots will now go to 5.
> 
> rday
> 
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