[ale] Ubuntu upgrade

[Jim Kinney]

Thanks for the corrections.

Design question: why are runlevels 2-5 identical? Granted the "old way" was
to have different levels to do different things. Upstart is a different init
process but there is still a need to have differentiation between different
running conditions (in my mind at least).

Hmm. or is it because the system is viewed as a single use system so it's
either full on or in maintenance mode. If full on then only the stuff needed
to run is installed.

F13 is using grub 0.97 so I have not had to make the big leap in grub
versions. Not looking forward to it becoming more like the old lilo where
changed had to be compiled in...

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:

> On 07/05/2010 07:20 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > since it sounds like the system is going into a non-multi-user mode by
> > default, lets try a test to see if it will go to a full X session.
> >
> > boot it to the root login prompt and enter the root password. run
> > telinit 3 and log in as a regular user. run startx and test if the
> > system x will run
> >
> > If all of that succeeds, logout as regular user and back in as root and
> > run telinit 5. If that's OK then the upgrade broke and didn't finish
> > configuring the grub setting.
> >
> > So the file to edit manually in fedora-land is /boot/grub/grub.conf and
> > in ubuntu-land it's /boot/grub/menu.1st (I think). That is what grub
> > uses to know what stuff to pass to the kernel during the initial start
> > up. Odds are you won't find "single" on any kernel line but if you do,
> > delete it.
> >
> > Maybe I'm being stubborn but I _like_ /etc/inittab. However adding
> > RUNLEVEL=5 to the grub kernel line won't break anything.
>
> Runlevels 2-5 are identical by default in Ubuntu and Debian.
>
> Ubuntu uses GRUB2. The GRUB2 configuration in /boot is programatically
> generated. DO not edit it. Edit /etc/default/grub instead, then run
> update-grub.
>
> --
> All the best,
> Brian Pitts
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