From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Young Subject: Re: rdshell and rdbreak Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:44:36 +0800 Message-ID: <4E843E04.4030904@redhat.com> References: <4E8413A6.2090804@redhat.com> <4E842B3C.4080707@redhat.com> <4E843879.9010000@redhat.com> <4E843D6B.9040302@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4E843D6B.9040302-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Harald Hoyer Cc: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On 09/29/2011 05:42 PM, Dave Young wrote: > On 09/29/2011 05:20 PM, Dave Young wrote: > >> On 09/29/2011 04:24 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote: >> >>> On 09/29/2011 08:43 AM, Dave Young wrote: >>>> 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? >>> >>> what about "rdshell rdbreak=cmdline" or >>> in new syntax "rd.shell=1 rd.break=cmdline" ?? >> >> >> Thanks for comment, harald >> >> I think it's still not so convenience to use two params for this issue, >> and 'cmdline' also looks a little confuse for me. But it's up to you so >> long as we can managed to have this feature. > > > Just tested, It works gracefully, thanks > > see cmdline means break before cmdline, It is clear enough also > BTW, The fedora wiki is outdated :) -- Thanks Dave