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Asked: 2026-05-13T10:41:41+00:00

Can’t I run myScript by appending a line to the entry of Linux in

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Can’t I run myScript by appending a line to the entry of Linux in /boot/grub/menu.lst as:

title           Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
uuid            b20f1720-b3f5-4162-bc92-ab2deb8d5d04
#kernel         /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=b20f1720-b3f5-4162-kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=b20f1720-b3f5-4162-bc92-ab2deb8d5d04 ro
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
/home/baltoros/Desktop/myScript

Is it even possible to run myScript at this point of time?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to run a script as part of the boot process, you want to do that with init.

    In the appropriate runlevel (most likely 5 if you are run a GUI, but 3 if you are only booting to the command line) directory, you will want to add an S## script.

    On my main system, that would be:

    /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S00whatever

    and add your script commands there. Because I used a number of 00, your script will be run very early in the boot process. Because of this, very few services will have started (for example, the network will not have been initialized). If you just want to run the script as part of booting and don’t really need it early in the boot process, you’d want to use a higher number:

    /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S98whatever
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