Simon Hobson <[email protected]> writes: > I thought having a "big binary blob" wasn't supposed to be a problem ;-) > > http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2016-04/msg00031.html > >> [Xen-users] Debian 8.4, EFI, and systemd = Tricky >> ... >> My problem is that it hangs when trying so init systemd on dom0 >> ... >> systemd is new to me. I would have expected that I could exec it from the >> shell and ideally it all should work, if everything was actually correctly >> working. >> >> At this point exec /bin/systemd hangs the machine, no output just a >> cursor(like every other hang) >> I don't know how I can step through, or emulate systemd to see where the >> error occurs. > > Perhaps SysVinit would be similarly opaque in a failure,
At least not in this case: Considering that init is just a program, it's perfectly possible to boot a system with something like init=/bin/sh on the kernel command line, say, in order to reset a root password which got lost, and the boot into multi-user mode via exec /sbin/init 3 after the problem has been solved. NB: Just applying the init procedure to systemd based on the assumption that it will work like a well-behaved UNIX(*) program should is - how shall we say - a bit daring/ over-optimistic. There's presumably some kind of systemd-procedure which should be applied instead. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
