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From: Dave Young <dyoung-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: rdshell and rdbreak
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:43:50 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E8413A6.2090804@redhat.com> (raw)

Hi,

For kernel developers sometimes boot-test need a minimal initrd, so just
drop into a shell is a nice feature.

The first impression of param 'rdshell' to me is it will drop me into a
shell, but It doesn't. It drop into shell only when initramfs fails.

The rdbreak is more near what I want, but it still fails when no root
args set in cmdline.

IMO initrd can provide such options at least: dropping into shell
without mount rootfs, user can mount by himself or do other things.

Thus, if it make sense how about add a:
rdbreak=force

OTOH, rdshell can be merged into rdbreak as:
rdbreak=fail

Any comments about this?
-- 
Thanks
Dave

             reply	other threads:[~2011-09-29  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-29  6:43 Dave Young [this message]
     [not found] ` <4E8413A6.2090804-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-29  8:24   ` rdshell and rdbreak Harald Hoyer
     [not found]     ` <4E842B3C.4080707-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-29  9:20       ` Dave Young
     [not found]         ` <4E843879.9010000-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-29  9:42           ` Dave Young
     [not found]             ` <4E843D6B.9040302-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-29  9:44               ` Dave Young

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