On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 23:04 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > It seems like a common enough recurrence that someone, often times a > person new to Fedora needs to boot to runlevel 3. Seems like it would > be advantageous to have a boot target that goes to runlevel 3 all the > time. > > What does the list think? -1: First, inexperienced users would equate this with functionality (?) in Windows and expect a GUI, and when they didn't get it, would instead get the mistaken impression it was a bug. In cases where something more horrendous was broken, like a file system problem that needed intervention/checking, this doesn't really help since almost any runlevel target drops them to the same maintenance (root password) prompt. Second, anyone "new" trying to perform fixes requiring a different runlevel, console skills, and so forth, would have to check all the normal information sources (including books, FAQs, forums, friends, et al.), which multitudinously include the advice for editing the GRUB boot configuration. If a fix is going to require editing an X configuration file, certainly it's a much lower bar to require adding " 3" (or whatever) to a line in the boot loader. Third, when there's an X problem, in many cases the system will already present a configuration error dialog and drop the user back to a getty for login -- not always, but very often. IMHO this would be misleading and have dubious value. We already provide functionality with the intallation discs and/or the rescue ISO that is much like a Windows recovery console (booting from the installation CD). Maybe you're looking for a failsafe "vesa" type X configuration, but this seems like a real quagmire looking for unwary developers to swallow up. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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