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Re: [LI] runlevel, kdevelop, lilo



On 12 Nov 1999, ADITYAN MURTHY wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have RH 6.1 installed and it starts off at runlevel 3.  how do i change it
> to runlevel 5 permanently?  During the installation, i did choose 'use
> graphical login screen'.

atul posted a mail on this ... and if you refer archives about 4 weeks
back...they were all over the pages. please read them - its no point if
you're on the list and not read the mails going through
anyway , do this

vi /etc/inittab
there should be a line that says id:3:default or some such...change it to
id:5:default

> During the RH installation,  i made some chages to the lilo like setting
> windows default (i was forced to) and changing linux and windows boot label. 

um , you are never "forced" to do stuff AFAIK

> But it hasn't changed.  i tried changing it using linuxconf but it says that
> /dev/hda7 is not a valid linux partition although it is. 

do a # lilo -v  - that should tell you what the problem is... the output
of that posted to the list could help.

> What could be the problem?

no idea.

- ravi.

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