After installing, 1. Setup essential services: # main tty ln -s /etc/openrc/init.d/agetty /etc/openrc/init.d/agetty.tty1 /sbin/rc-update add agetty.tty1 default cp /etc/openrc/conf.d/agetty /etc/openrc/conf.d/agetty.tty1 echo 'agetty_options="--noclear"' >> /etc/openrc/conf.d/agetty.tty1 # additional ttys for i in {2..6}; do ln -s /etc/openrc/init.d/agetty /etc/openrc/init.d/agetty.tty${i} /sbin/rc-update add agetty.tty${i} default done # serial tty (for servers) ln -s /etc/openrc/init.d/agetty /etc/openrc/init.d/agetty.ttyS0 /sbin/rc-update add agetty.ttyS0 default cp /etc/openrc/conf.d/agetty /etc/openrc/conf.d/agetty.ttyS0 echo 'agetty_options="--noclear"' >> /etc/openrc/conf.d/agetty.ttyS0 2. Setup additional services Checkout out the openrc-services package and instructions provided there. 3. Add the following to boot parameters (via /etc/lilo.conf for lilo or /etc/default/grub for grub): init=/sbin/openrc-init Regenerate boot configuration ('lilo -v' or 'grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg') 4. Reboot! ## Note If migrating to OpenRC 0.39+ from previous versions, please check: https://docs.slackware.com/talk:howtos:general_admin:openrc#migrating_to_openrc_039_from_previous_versions