Graphical boot isn't so graphical

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 00:29, Thomas Corriher wrote:

> Benjamin Vander was correct.  It is the graphical booting which is 
> more likely to cause boot problems, or allow serious problems to go 
> unnoticed during the boot process.  It is a bad design decision 
> from a technical perspective.  However, it is good marketing and 
> seems more welcoming to newbies.  I guess it is all a matter of 
> priorities.  I suppose as long as RH makes reconfiguring it 
> reasonably easy, then this is not a major problem for anyone.
It's not too bad - if your system crashed, during the next boot sequence
your partitions would not be cleanly unmounted and rhgb would not be
triggered.

Guess I'll have to start making it a habit of booting into runlevel 3
after making changes, e.g. after adding services...

Regards,

Michel