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If I'm in windows, I shut down, tell it to restart the PC and after the usual time, it kicks into the grub menu of gentoo or windows.
So I select gentoo, then after all the boot up dialogue has finished, instead of offering me a Graphic login, I end up with an level 3 login (even though I'm pretty sure that I told it to start at level 5), now if I just enter, predictably I just re-display the level 3 login, If I type in user or root, It usually starts the GUI login mode.
Similar in reverse, if I tell it to log out (the shut down option seems to have disappeared somewhere) from KDE I just end up at a level 3 logged in status, and have to SU to root to be able to reboot.
What do I need to look at/change/whatever, so I only see the graphic login and when it shuts down, it shuts down all the way or if I want to restart, it shuts down then restarts to the grub menu ?
I appreciate that its probably just something that I've got configured incorrectly but I'll be blowed if I can work out what it is?
Check out /etc/inittab thats where you tell the computer which init level to startup in, also you can do "rc-update add xdm default" which will start up the GUI Login Manager that you specified in /etc/rc.conf
I'm not sure what a Level 5 login does, but im pretty sure if you try level 4 it automatically starts your login manager (kdm or gdm or w/e)
Try changing it to level 4.
I managed to screw things up in "glorious fashion", a couple of days ago, so for the moment I've installed knoppix to my hard drive, so at least I've got a working distro!
I'm planning to re-installe the gentoo, planning being the operative word. To make sure that I get it right (well really to make sure that I select the right options).
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