[SGVLUG] FC4 -- how to stop boot into graphics mode

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On 1/24/06, Dustin <laurence at alice.caltech.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Emerson, Tom wrote:
>
> > option.  For that, I'd suggest starting in "mode 3" -- this is the full
> > every-day/networking mode, but specifically WITHOUT X (at least, by
> > default for most distros)
>
> But specifically not in Debian, which insists on configuring all the
> runlevels identically by default, and of course nothing about normal
> runlevels applies to Gentoo.
>
> >   $ sync
> >   $ telinit 5
> >
> > (some consider the "sync" to be optional -- it's purpose is to ensure
> > that any pending "writes" to disk drives have completed before
> > potentially losing the disk buffers.)
>
> Are you suggesting that Linux can corrupt disks because of a runlevel
> change?!?

I think Tom just likes to call sync as init is a userspace process and
has nothing to do with kernel disk buffers, even if changing runlevel
was to unmount file systems the kernel would not unmount a filesystem
without syncing it.