From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Young Subject: rdshell and rdbreak Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:43:50 +0800 Message-ID: <4E8413A6.2090804@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org 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