Write a report which demonstrates how you found the answers to the questions below on your Linux installation. To be able to copy and paste command line work from a console session into your document, you may wish to use the script command. Read the "How To" link about scripting from our course web page (www.msoe.edu/~blessing/ms373). Your report can be submitted to me (blessing@msoe.edu ) by emailing it as an attachment to your mail message. Submit your work as an HTML file generated from Open Office or other suitable editor.
The purpose of this lab is to demonstrate a working knowledge of the Linux booting process. Boot your Linux system and investigate its boot parameters.
Which boot loader is being used on your system?
Where is the configuration file for your boot loader?
How does one go about modifying the boot menu to make Linux (and not Windows) the default Operating System that is booted?
How do you do this without reordering the entries in the config file?
Investigate the services that are started and stopped at each of the run levels (1~5) in Linux.
List the services for each run level.
How does one go between run levels in Linux? Demonstrate this in your script file session.
There is one very useful command that specifies what services are started and stopped at each init level. Can you identify it? (Hint: It's mentioned in chapter 2 of the Linux Administration Handbook) Does it work in your Linux distribution? If so, demonstrate it in your script file.