[systemd-devel] Boot ordering

[Christoph Pleger]

Hello,

"Dimitri John Ledkov" <dimitri.j.ledkov at intel.com> wrote:

>> I want a program to be run at boot time without any other systemd
>> services
>> starting concurrently. The program needs the services from basic.target
>> and may influence everything in multi-user.target and later targets, so
>> I
>> guess that between basic.target and multi-user.target is a good time for
>> execution of the program.
>>
>> I hoped that this can be achieved by simply defining a new target,
>> setting
>> after basic.target dependencies for it and changing the dependencies of
>> multi-user.target from basic.target to my new target. This would not
>> require me too know anything about the specific services in basic.target
>> and multi-user.target .
>
> Sounds like you want to create intermediate.target, change
> default.target to point at it, boot all the way up to
> intermediate.target, and at that point isolate or start
> multi-user.target.

I chose that solution, because from all possible solutions for the desired
boot order, it seems to be the one which is closest to my idea.

Regards
  Christoph