On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Curtis Shimamoto < sugar.and.scruffy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/15/13 at 06:37pm, Ismael Bouya wrote: > > By the way I came to a "dark" point : how does systemd knows that he is > > started in fallbackmode ? > > Likely, something is broken with your fallback initramfs. > > Booting from the fallback should be no different than booting from the > normal initramfs. The fallback simply doesn't apply the autodetect > hook, so it does not try to exclude unnecessary modules. > > The fallback is typically useful if you have a disk that you might want > to move to another machine with different hardware. It is just not > machine specific like th normal one. > > -- > Curtis Shimamoto > sugar.and.scruffy [at] gmail.com > Maybe the OP is mixing the *fallback* initramfs with the rescue/emergency boot options. They are orthogonal and only the latter ones ask for the root password.
