Re: How to put boot into interactive mode

2014-04-17 Thread Rick Stevens
On 04/17/2014 12:17 PM, Tim issued this missive: Allegedly, on or about 17 April 2014, Tom Horsley sent: Over the last 20 years, I have occasionally tried that many times, and on no system has hitting "I" ever gone interactive for me (it always had the message that said hit "I" for interactive b

Re: How to put boot into interactive mode

2014-04-17 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 17 April 2014, Tom Horsley sent: > Over the last 20 years, I have occasionally tried that many times, > and on no system has hitting "I" ever gone interactive for me (it > always had the message that said hit "I" for interactive boot, > it just never worked :-). But did you

Re: How to put boot into interactive mode

2014-04-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 04/17/2014 11:26 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:12:15 -0400 Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:24:36PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Long ago I knew a way to get the boot process to require a keystroke at each step. This was important when you were trying to

Re: How to put boot into interactive mode

2014-04-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 07:45:02 -0700 Mike Wright wrote: > Booting has become so fast I could no longer hit the key in time but I > think it was capital I as in interactive. Over the last 20 years, I have occasionally tried that many times, and on no system has hitting "I" ever gone interactive for

Re: How to put boot into interactive mode

2014-04-17 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 09:26:39AM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Well, there is booting with: > systemd.confirm_spawn=true > not sure it fully does what you want, but it asks you for each thing > it's going to spawn if you want to do it or not or skip. Oh, huh. Okay, that has grown since I last lo

Re: How to put boot into interactive mode

2014-04-17 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 11:12:15 -0400 Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:24:36PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Long ago I knew a way to get the boot process to require a keystroke > > at each step. This was important when you were trying to read the > > screen to figure out wha

Re: How to put boot into interactive mode

2014-04-17 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:24:36PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Long ago I knew a way to get the boot process to require a keystroke > at each step. This was important when you were trying to read the > screen to figure out what is happening, typically wrong. > But long ago I lost my notes on

Re: How to put boot into interactive mode

2014-04-17 Thread Mike Wright
04/16/2014 07:24 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Long ago I knew a way to get the boot process to require a keystroke at each step. This was important when you were trying to read the screen to figure out what is happening, typically wrong. But long ago I lost my notes on this, and I believe i need

How to put boot into interactive mode

2014-04-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Long ago I knew a way to get the boot process to require a keystroke at each step. This was important when you were trying to read the screen to figure out what is happening, typically wrong. But long ago I lost my notes on this, and I believe i need before my next reboot. Can someone point