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Reordering the boot for fun and profit

Posted Jan 19, 2008 15:47 UTC (Sat) by mbottrell (guest, #43008)
Parent article: Reordering the boot for fun and profit

I never found 0, 1, and 6 hard to remember.


0 - No-one can use the system (ahh .. it must be halted!)
1 - Only 1 user can use it.  (ahh.. single user mode!)
6 - Reboot -- okay.. this one I have no witty remark.  ;-)

Generally I remember it by 5 == Xwindows, and one up it's time to reboot.

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Posted Jan 25, 2008 3:08 UTC (Fri) by lysse (guest, #3190) [Link]

Well, a 6 kind of looks like a cartoon leg with a big boot on the end of it...