An update. On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 08:03:31PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 07:06:57PM +0300, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Am 2018-06-10 hackte Reco in die Tasten: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 02:25:30PM +0300, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > >> Good day, > > >> > > >> I run Stretch on my Laptop with sysvinit. > > >> > > >> I had setup some profiles and tried to start them by passing 2, 3, > > >> 4, 5 at the end of the Kernel commandline (I use LILO) but the > > >> appropriated runnlevel ist not entered. > > >> > > >> Do I mis something? > > > > > > Whatever you did to LILO you did it wrong. > > > > I have this parameter in "append" of each kernel section since ages! > > to be more precise, since Woody and it was working! > > Multiple exclamation signs are not a valid substitute for a > configuration file. Please show an appropriate lilo.conf snippet.
Installed fresh Debian stretch installation. Installed lilo. Added this to lilo.conf: append = "4" Ran /sbin/lilo. Rebooted. > > > Check your /proc/cmdline > > > after the boot. > > > Every init I've tested assumes a runlevel passed as a last argument of > > > /proc/cmdline. > > > > It show at the end 2/3/4 depending how I boot, but after login I am > > in the default runlevel 2. > > Again, show, do not tell. > Install bootlogd, attach fresh /var/log/boot to your e-mail. > Show /proc/cmdline. Post the output of 'who -r'. After the reboot, /var/log/bootlogd contained: INIT: Entering runlevel: 4 "who -r" showed current runlevel 4, last runlevel S. Therefore, lilo worked as intended. Took me 15 minutes to do all this. Reco
