On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Jools Smyth <email address hidden> wrote:
> What about machines which the sysadmin has only remote access to ? He
> will want the machine to boot into degraded mode, so services can be
> running until he can contact someone at the data centre to replace a
> disk. having it stop at a prompt in this scenario is not helpful.
It will NOT stop at this prompt if either:
* The user has BOOT_DEGRADED=true in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/mdadm, or
* The user passes "bootdegraded=true" on the kernel boot parameter
It will only stop at this prompt just before dropping to a busybox
recovery shell in the initramfs, which is also only useful if you're
standing in front of the console.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Jools Smyth <email address hidden> wrote:
> What about machines which the sysadmin has only remote access to ? He
> will want the machine to boot into degraded mode, so services can be
> running until he can contact someone at the data centre to replace a
> disk. having it stop at a prompt in this scenario is not helpful.
It will NOT stop at this prompt if either:
* The user has BOOT_DEGRADED=true in /etc/initramfs- tools/conf. d/mdadm, or
* The user passes "bootdegraded=true" on the kernel boot parameter
It will only stop at this prompt just before dropping to a busybox
recovery shell in the initramfs, which is also only useful if you're
standing in front of the console.
:-Dustin