[ale] Ubuntu upgrade

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Sun Jul 4 19:53:38 EDT 2010


On 07/04/2010 06:43 PM, drifter wrote:
> Okay; I upgraded the Ubuntu install on my netbook from 9.whatever
> to 10.whatever.
> Apparently I now need to edit the grub boot menu as the OS now boots
> into runlevel 3. On Fedora/RedHat the runlevel used to be set in
> /etc/inittab  but there doesn't seem to be any such file on this box.
>
> So how do I get to the grub boot file to edit it to start in Runlevel 5
> and, if necessary, tell it to startX?

Runlevels 2-5 are the same in Ubuntu and probably most other 
Debian-derived distributions. I just checked a working Ubuntu 10.04 
desktop and it is at runlevel 2.

So, I don't think the runlevel is your problem.

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All the best,
Brian Pitts


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