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23 <div class=
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24 <div class=
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2014</div>
25 <div class=
"body"><p>By now, it is well known that Debian Jessie will not be using
26 sysvinit as its boot system by default. But how can one keep using
27 sysvinit in Jessie? It is fairly easy, and here are a few recipes,
29 <a href=
"http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html">Erich
31 <a href=
"http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/2014/still_universal/">Simon
34 <p>If you already are using Wheezy and want to upgrade to Jessie and
35 keep sysvinit as your boot system, create a file
36 <tt>/etc/apt/preferences.d/use-sysvinit
</tt> with this content before
43 </pre></blockquote><p>
45 <p>This file content will tell apt and aptitude to not consider
46 installing systemd-sysv as part of any installation and upgrade
47 solution when resolving dependencies, and thus tell it to avoid
48 systemd as a default boot system. The end result should be that the
49 upgraded system keep using sysvinit.
</p>
51 <p>If you are installing Jessie for the first time, there is no way to
52 get sysvinit installed by default (debootstrap used by
53 debian-installer have no option for this), but one can tell the
54 installer to switch to sysvinit before the first boot. Either by
55 using a kernel argument to the installer, or by adding a line to the
56 preseed file used. First, the kernel command line argument:
59 preseed/
late_command="in-target apt-get install --purge -y sysvinit-core"
60 </pre></blockquote><p>
62 <p>Next, the line to use in a preseed file:
</p>
65 d-i preseed/late_command string in-target apt-get install -y sysvinit-core
66 </pre></blockquote><p>
68 <p>One can of course also do this after the first boot by installing
69 the sysvinit-core package.
</p>
71 <p>I recommend only using sysvinit if you really need it, as the
72 sysvinit boot sequence in Debian have several hardware specific bugs
73 on Linux caused by the fact that it is unpredictable when hardware
74 devices show up during boot. But on the other hand, the new default
75 boot system still have a few rough edges I hope will be fixed before
76 Jessie is released.
</p>
78 <p>Update
2014-
11-
26: Inspired by
79 <ahref=
"https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10-tg_e20141125-tg.htm#e20141125-tg_wlog-10-tg">a
80 blog post by Torsten Glaser
</a>, added --purge to the preseed
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4)
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476 <li><a href=
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40)
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