[systemd-devel] root= ignored (was: failing boot start jobs delay reboot)

[Felix Miata]

Lennart Poettering composed on 2015-01-28 02:03 (UTC+0100):

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> Both. When they occur during init they repeat during shutdown. Even when I
>> let init complete and succeed to fix the typo or oversight, the init failure
>> gets remembered and repeated at shutdown. Often the start job is on account
>> of a volume label that has been replaced, usually along with a UUID, because
>> the clone is a partition on the same HD. Fedora is particularly frustrating
>> by embedding dependent root volume label and not obeying root= on cmdline
>> (openSUSE obeys root=). Those typos usually have to be fixed by chroot to run
>> dracut.

> Hmm, Fedora doesn't obey root=? That sounds like a bug. 

I think it's only a problem due to Fedora's configuration of its Dracut
hostonly option used by default. AFAICR, its rescue initrds have always
worked. I can't remember now, but it may possibly be Mageia with hostonly
enabled disobeys root= too, locking onto root's UUID when the initrd was
built. It's never been a problem I've observed in openSUSE, which let dracut
evolve a lot longer before switching to it from mkinitrd.

> Harald?
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