[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

Thomas Backlund tmb at mageia.org
Mon Apr 8 14:20:55 CEST 2013


Frank Griffin skrev 4.4.2013 19:12:
> On 04/04/2013 10:59 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> Not much progress.  My usual method of editing the kernel line to get
>> a level 3 boot doesn't work - same blank (but lit) screen.  Failsafe
>> appears to be doing better - at least I can see messages.  It reaches
>>
>> Reached target Multi-User
>> Reached target Graphical Interface
>>
>> and there it sticks.  Does that give any clue as to what is failing,
>> and what I need to do to rescue the system?
>>
> Boot a rescue disk and mount your root partition.  In
> /etc/systemd/system you should see a symlink like:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   36 Mar 29 11:00 default.target ->
> /lib/systemd/system/runlevel5.target
>
> Just remove this and re-symlink to /lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target
> and you should get a level 3 boot.


It's actually easier than that.

Add "systemd.unit=multi-user.target" on kernel / grub command line and 
ith will boot to runlevel 3

--
Thomas



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