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