Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 129057
I am unable to boot in single mode with initrd made with new mkinitrd
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:46 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040625 Description of problem: Sinve I upgrade mkinitrd I have been unable to boot in singe mode by adding singel in boot. I use lates kernel-2.6.7-1.503. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-4.0.0-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot with grub add singel behind kernel 2. 3. Actual Results: what the pc boot into mode 5 Expected Results: I should be able to boot into singel mode at leaste initrd built with previous mkinitrd enable me to do it. Additional info: single mode booting is an easy way to compile nvidia driver before swithing to mode 5.
If you boot with init=/sbin/init S, does it work? I'm guessing so. Unfortunately, I'm not really clear on how this is supposed to work when you're doing an initramfs -- passing all of the arguments to init is clearly wrong, yet there's no way to figure out which ones are valid to pass to init (as the kernel will make use of some of them). cc'ing some kernel guys to argue it out :)
Passing init=/sbin/init S works with initramfs initrd.img. Since I compiled XFS into the kernel I am able to do without initrd.image.
*** Bug 129099 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in 4.0.1
Confirmed that mkinitrd-4.1.12-1 allows me to boot using the word "single" as a boottime kernel parameter with kernel-2.6.8-1.541 Closing. -jef