[systemd-devel] Trying systemd in Fedora 14

[Harald Hoyer]

On 11/11/2010 12:03 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 03.11.10 11:03, Felix Braun (Felix.Braun at mail.McGill.ca) wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>
> heya,
>
>> while systemd wasn't chosen as a default init system for F14, it is
>> included in the repositories. That way, it was argued, more people
>> could give it a try and potentially discover shortcomings before it
>> would be made the default.
>>
>> I would like to give systemd a spin and have installed it in my fresh
>> Fedora system. However, bootup is still seems to be handled by upstart
>> after installation. I have not been able to find installation
>> information in the man pages or on systemd's web presence.
>>
>> How do I transfer control to systemd? Changing init=xxx in grub.conf?
>> Do I need to pass any other arguments on the kernel command line?
>
> At this point we only really maintain systemd for F15. It's too much
> work for us to maintain it for two distributions at the same time,
> especially since systemd requires deep integration into the
> system. Also, bug reports against the old systemd version in F14 are
> only of limited use to us.
>
> My recommendation to test systemd is to upgrade to F15. I have been
> running it for a while now, and while it is a bumpy ride it generally
> works.
>
> Sorry if this is disappointing,
>
> Lennart
>

I had success with:

# yum --enablerepo=rawhide update udev systemd initscripts