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 -- Thanks Dave -- 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
