On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:52 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:31 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> [snip] >> > OK, I will try dracut, >> >> I hope it works with dracut. This is my kernel command line and >> RAID/LVM related stuff from GRUB2: >> >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd quiet nosplash" >> GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="lvm mdraid1x" >> >> And this is my dracut.conf (minus comments): >> >> add_dracutmodules+="crypt lvm mdraid systemd" >> add_drivers+="autofs4 ipv6 dm-crypt aes sha256" >> fscks="umount mount /sbin/fsck* e2fsck" >> >> That's it. I didn't touched anything else to make dracut+systemd work >> with LVM and RAID (and LUKS, but that doesn't matter). >> >> Also, dracut comes with extensive and very clear documentation; check >> the man pages included. >> >> > but I still want to know what systemd is doing, >> > what processes its spawning, etc. -- how can I find this out -- I >> > thought to use the confirm_spawn, but it times out and keeps going, what >> > can I do instead? >> >> You can use bootchart: >> >> man 1 systemd-bootchart >> >> It will produce a chart with all the processes, and how long it takes >> for every one of them. But remember, the order depends on which one >> finishes before, and that can change from boot to boot. >> >> > Thanks people for all your responses, this is a great list. >> >> Regards. >> -- >> Canek Peláez Valdés >> Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias > > Well, since I am unable to see, the graph would not do me any good, any > way to get it in text form? What I want to see (and I know the order > may change) is which starts first and so on, to make sure targets, > etc. do what I want them to do.
Try adding this to your kernel command line: systemd.log_target=console systemd.log_level=debug. It will add a lot of output, including what is being executed. Everything is documented in the man page: man 1 systemd. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
