Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:30 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Stefan G. Weichinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > On 28.05.2015 09:39, [email protected] wrote:
> > >
> > > > No, the journal is gone, it was only in /run which is on a tmpfs file
> > > > system. I can boot from a cd all day long, but it would not help one
> > > > bit.
> > >
> > > Hm, I think it could help for sure as you could chroot in and do
> > > something. For example build a new kernel or initrd or ...
> > >
> > > You removed openrc? Otherwise boot via openrc and (try to) fix stuff.
> > >
> > > You could even reinstall openrc from within chroot ... just to get
> > > bootin again etc etc
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I still have openrc, but Dracut won't work with it, at least maybe
> > because I have systemd use flag enabled. Also, in retrospect, that
> > would not have solved my specific problems, because it was related to an
> > rd.lv command which is specific to dracut.
> >
> > But thanks for your suggestion. I wonder what the rescue target is -- I
> > have never seen that before -- maybe I could configure it so I could
> > boot into a shell and fix things and it would be sort of like a little
> > system of its own.
>
> Others have already answered, but I will add that if you put "emergency"
> anywhere in the kernel command line, then systemd will boot to the rescue
> target; that's why I suggested to do it in my first answer.
>
> Also, as Rich said, if you wait it's possible that systemd (and/or dracut)
> will drop you into a rescue shell anyway. Unfortunately, thanks to very
> slow hardware in the wild, the timeout has been increased to three minutes,
> and I believe those are *per hardware unit*. So if you have five disks, in
> theory it could take fifteen minutes to get you to a rescue shell.
Thanks much. Does the rescue target try to mount all the disks? Also,
I would still like to get in touch with the dracut devs -- although I
may never make that particular mistake again, but maybe other things
will happen.
--
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How do
you spend it?
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