Re: [gentoo-user] problems debugging a systemd problem

Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> wrote:

> On 28.05.2015 10:30, covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> You could rebuild the initrd from live-cd maybe
>
> > 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.
>
> It's a target of systemd, kind of a runlevel.
>
> see http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging/#index1h1
>
> quote:
>
> "To boot directly into rescue target add systemd.unit=rescue.target or
> just 1 to the kernel command line."

OK, thanks, I will definitely check that one out.

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