When using the 00dash module in dracut, the emergency_shell currently has no stderr. Problem is related to dash closing stderr if opening /dev/tty fails. I just triggered an update to dash in fedora F11 and rawhide fixing this behaviour. This should make the emergency shell much easier to work with. regards, andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html