[arch-general] Interactive boot mode like in Gentoo

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Fri Aug 27 06:32:12 EDT 2010


On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:15, Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 August 2010 15:02, joker-jar at yandex.ru <joker-jar at yandex.ru> wrote:
>> Interactive boot allows to select action for each daemon such "start
>> service" and "skip service"
>
> You already decide whether to "start service" or "skip service" when
> you edit /etc/rc.conf. In the event you feel like it's important to
> change your decision, simply bootup to whatever runlevel you can and
> edit the file.

And if you've screwed up your system so far that it doesn't boot due
to something in /etc/rc.conf then boot with init=bash and then modify
your config.  Or, grab a liveCD you have around for occasions like
this :-)

/M

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