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MCSH

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[Solved]Enabling/Disabling systemd services in grub

Hello,

I'd like to have more than one grub entry to select either gdm or sddm. I tried passing init script to grub but that didn't worked (I'm guessing because systemd wasn't loaded at that time? I'm not sure)

Basically I need two boot options one to do:

systemctl disable gdm.service         
systemctl enable sddm.service

And the other to reverse this.

So, is there a way I can achieve this?

Last edited by MCSH (2016-04-07 09:58:06)

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Sajjad Heydari

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Re: [Solved]Enabling/Disabling systemd services in grub

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sy … tom_target and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sy … _boot_into

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MCSH

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Re: [Solved]Enabling/Disabling systemd services in grub

Thank you, this looks promising, I'll try to implement it after reading the docs.

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Sajjad Heydari

MCSH

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Re: [Solved]Enabling/Disabling systemd services in grub

For anyone else looking to achieve a similar behavior:

Copy

/usr/lib/systemd/system/graphical.target

to

/etc/systemd/system/mykde.target

Then create the directory:

/etc/systemd/system/mykde.target.wants

and link any service you require, (sddm for example would be:

/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service

) to this directory

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