From: lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca   
      
   On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:49:27 -0500, Mark Cudworth wrote:   
      
   > On 11/18/21 5:40 PM, John Forkosh wrote:   
   >> I'd rather boot into terminal mode and startx manually when I'm ready.   
   >> How do I change all the elilo stuff to do that?   
   >   
   > This isn't controlled by the boot process like you mention.   
      
   But, it /can/ be. The "append" statement (both in lilo and elilo)   
   passes additional parameters to the kernel, including the startup   
   runlevel. From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt:   
     The kernel parses parameters from the kernel command line up to "--";   
     if it doesn't recognize a parameter and it doesn't contain a '.', the   
     parameter gets passed to init: parameters with '=' go into init's   
     environment, others are passed as command line arguments to init.   
     Everything after "--" is passed as an argument to init.   
      
   /If/ the elilo "append" statement had read   
     append="root=/dev/sda7 vga=normal ro 4"   
   then the kernel would have passed "4" to init, to be used as the   
   initial runlevel.   
      
   > You want to   
   > change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab from 4 to 3.   
      
   Agreed.   
      
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