On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> wrote: > > As I said, I did the following tests: > > 1. Adding "emergency" to the kernel command line, with a valid root=. > 2. Adding "rescue" to the kernel command line, with a valid root=. > 2. Leaving root= invalid without adding neither "emergency" nor "rescue". > > If root= is valid, with emergency systemd drops you to a shell with your > root filesystem mounted read-only. With rescue, systemd drops you to a shell > with all your filesystems mounted read-write. > > If root= is invalid, it doesn't matter if you use emergency, rescue, or > neither, *dracut* drops you to a shell, still inside the initramfs > obviously. It takes a while; I didn't took the time, but I think it was 3 > minutes. Inside this shell, you can use systemd normally, and if you manage > to mount the root filesystem, I'm sure you could continue the normal boot > process. You'll have to pivot root manually, though.
That was basically my understanding of how dracut behaved. I think we're just having a communication gap or something, because you seem to be disagreeing with me when I'm basically trying to describe the behavior you just listed above. -- Rich
