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Well, like the title says, I have inittab set to id:5:initdefault but it always boots to runlevel 3 (as confirmed by "runlevel" and "who -r")

Typing 'init 5' brings the GUI up. Also, appending '5' to the kernel grub line also brings up the GUI.

By why is inittab ignored?

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  • Is the initdefault line in inittab exactly as you've shown? There should be colon on the end - so id:5:initdefault:. Although if init didn't recognise the line I'd expect (from the docs) it to prompt for run level. Jun 14, 2015 at 17:55
  • sorry, yes, the inittab has the colon on the end so "id:5:initdefault:" The freshly installed file had that as the absolute last line. I added an extra blank line below but same result.
    – Danny
    Jun 14, 2015 at 18:16
  • What is in your grub config? i.e. cat /proc/cmdline What commands did the OS boot with? Is there a 3 in the grub config?
    – Aaron
    Jul 17, 2015 at 16:06

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