Setting runlevel at kernel cmdline

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Discussed in #259

^{Originally posted by hongkongkiwi May 6, 2022}
I'm wondering the read order of runlevel in finit (cmdline/config).

Right now, I have runlevel 3 set in my /etc/finit.conf config via runlevel 3. This makes sense as a default.

If the runlevel is set via the kernel commandline I would like to override the runlevel set in the config (because obviously we are specifically asking for it to be something). That's how I expected it to work but it seems to not be doing that.

Is this a bug or by design?

e.g. here's my kernel cmdline:
quiet 9 -- finit.fstab=/etc/myfstab

So according to this I should expect finit will launch at runlevel 9 , but after reading the finit.conf it changes it to runlevel 3.