Description of problem: "Press I for interactive startup" doesn't work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC3 with all updates as of December 16, 2004 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot FC3 2. When the "Press I for interactive startup" is seen, press "I" or "i" Actual results: nothing happens Expected results: should go into interactive startup mode Additional info: in FC3 it seems that was disabled. rc.sysinit: ----------------------------- if [ "$PROMPT" != "no" ]; then echo -en $"\t\tPress 'I' to enter interactive startup." echo fi ------------------------------ Same file on FC2: ------------------------------- if [ "$PROMPT" != "no" ]; then echo -en $"\t\tPress 'I' to enter interactive startup." echo sleep 1 fi ------------------------------- While this is a small difference it can mean the difference between possible (1 second delay) and impossible (no delay) Is this a joke that is being played on users or is there some reason for this ?
If you add the 'sleep 1', does that actually work?
Created attachment 110390 [details] rc.sysinit allow "I" for interactive
Adding 'sleep 1' makes no difference, but commenting out the following in rc.sysinit made it work: if strstr "$cmdline" confirm ; then touch /var/run/confirm fi (around line 921) I've also left the 'sleep 1' in to allow a little more time for hitting the "I".
That really shouldn't make any difference. Will have to do some more testing here.
Same problem on FC4t2, Mac mini (ARCH=ppc), USB keyboard. I typed 'I' or 'i' immediately upon seeing the red letters in "Welcome to Fedora Core". By then the console had advanced to "Starting udev", but the green "[OK]" had not yet appeared. Workaround is to add " confirm" to end of boot line.
/etc/grub.conf was: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet which fails Interactive boot; but Interactive boot works with: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
I can't reproduce this here; it works for me generally in testing; it *seems* that it needs to be done after loading the default keymap, but ICBW.
This is a problem again for me. For a couple kernel versions it worked <great>. Pressing I would allow an interactive boot. I am now running 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4smp and again I can't boot in interactive mode and I need to due to some issues I am having with nfs. Thanks.