Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:11 PM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > > > > > 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. > > As I said in my previous mail: emergency mounts the root filesystem > read-only; rescue mounts all the filesystems read/write. If dracut cannot > mount the root filesystem, it *WILL* drop you to a shell, but it will take > some time while all the timeouts expire. This could be *several* minutes > depending on hardware. > > The dracut mailing list is in [1]. > > Regards.
OK, thanks much. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com