[10:46] <A2C2A> is it possible to "interrupt" upstart's init sequence in such a way that you get to choose whether to start or skip starting each service? if you're familiar with Gentoo's init, what I'm after is what happens when you press i during init.
[10:47] <ion> How would that be useful?
[10:48] <A2C2A> for debugging 
[10:49] <A2C2A> it has been invaluable for me while creating various gentoo-based mini-distros
[10:50] <A2C2A> I guess that means this is not possible in upstart?
[18:18] <JamesB192> A2C2A: and you can't sit baselayout atop upstart why? it's not a feature of sysvinit either.
[18:26] <JamesB192> sysvinit is told basily to just call rc on runlevel changes, I had an upstart job that did the same thing until I switched my box back to sysv, and I don't remember what I did w/ the ebuild for upstart. 'man inittab' and 'nano /etc/inittab' are probably your friends. substitute the editor/pager? of your choice for nano.
[21:10] <mbiebl> A2C2A: Keybuk expressed interest in such an "interactive" mode
[21:11] <mbiebl> but upstart currently doesn't have support for that natively