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

Dustin laurence at alice.caltech.edu
Tue Jan 24 14:43:09 PST 2006


On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Emerson, Tom wrote:

> To be honest, I'm one of those that think "sync is optional" :)  
> [mainly due to what Michael pointed out -- the kernel will sync it
> anyway...]

To me even calling it "optional" is strange enough.  What I want to know
is what in the world suggested doing a sync in the first place?

> hoses his system", I'd like to have a shield to hide behind... ;)

I'd tell them Linux is broken in that case, go bark at your distro.
Runlevel changes should *NOT* be able to corrupt the filesystems!

Dustin



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