Tim Holloway wrote:I think what you really meant what "How can I change the default runlevel?". Since that's what's set in inittab.
I'm puzzled. I'm pretty sure that inittab is wired in pretty tightly to the boot process, in addition to being in charge of respawning critical processes. The only way I can see that you could function without one is if the inittab is in an initial boot image that's been swapped out via a pivot chroot operation as part of the later-stage booting where the boot disk is replaced by the root disk.
So what do I do now to change the default runlevel?