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Hi,

Can someone advice me, what parameter I need to customized in kernel to ask runlevel at the time of system is getting up?
i.e System MUST ask me in which runlevel, I want to work.


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Satya

Most Linux distro don't ask that question but you can pass parameter at grub or lilo boot loader to setup default runlevel using /etc/inittab file. See following urls for more info

Linux Changing Run Levels | nixCraft

Let me know if you need any further help

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Still seaching for right answer, my question is that how I can pass the run-level parameter ( 0,1,2,3,4,5,6) at the system starting time.
i.e Echoing message like 'Enter run-level to boot' and if I press 2, it should start booting in 2 runlevel.
I do not want to physically modify the inittab file for run level.I want, this file should
get the run-level at the runtime by accepting the parameter from user.

There is no such thing exists, however you can write your own script or modify existing script that reads default from inittab file. You can find this script at /etc/rc file. Now you need to modify this script to give prompt and then set to that runlevel.

Hope this helps

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I think in this case you need to edit the inittab script and add an echo and a read message to do that job for you, but why do you need such a thing were actually u shall be either working under RUNLEVEL 3 or 5 ???

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