Re: OT: Fedora Interactive boot option...

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Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> Long ago Redhat and early Fedora versions had the option of pressing the 
> letter i at boot to have it request for loading of the individual kernel options.
> 
> Used it long ago, but haven't seen it for a long time, and search show the old 
> one, but not how it was done, or if it was something only on the redhat.
> 
> Have a project that I have handled since 2004, and it works fine using 
> kernel.org source code to build on versions up to my current Fedora 28 
> system.
> 
> Have an user with an IBM Thinkpad t440p and it freezes with all 5 of the 
> kernels that are included, plus with safe mode options, and debug options.
> Originally, the last message was about ata8 device. Built a special kernel 
> with all ata modules removed, and lock just showed a different last message, 
> so am thinking it is what loads next that is freezing. 
> 
> Looked thru the kernel options, and don't see anything about an interactive 
> option.  
> 
> Just wondering if someone might know how that interactive boot process was 
> done.

AFAIK, the interactive boot mode was part of the SysV init.
I don't know if anything similar is available with systemd
init.

Here's an old thread from this list about it:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/MWRIPXZ67YBKEPXIY2M4T476KTQJXKH4/?sort=date

Maybe that will provide a starting point for where to look
in the systemd options.

-- 
Todd
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