[systemd-devel] Antw: [EXT] Re: [systemd‑devel] Splitting sd‑boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd‑boot in Fedora

[Lennart Poettering]

On Do, 28.04.22 10:25, Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl at rz.uni-regensburg.de) wrote:

> > Well, it sounds backwards to focus on the boot loader UI side of
> > "recovery" so much if you don't even have any reasonably thing you
> > could do in case of recovery better than a login prompt/shell...
>
> Well, not the shell, the tools are important:
> Before systemd I could easily recover as system that failed booting (at some
> init stage), because I could easily mount the root filesystem and the tools
> were there.
> With systemd I have a crippled minimum emergency environment where almost all
> required tools are absent (just es the real fstab is). That's one of the first
> and biggest frustrations with systemd.

That's a totally bogus claim. systemd has no control on the set of
packages your distro installs or not. If you are missing some tool in
your "emergency environment" (for whatever that is, systemd doesn't
have a concept like that), then bring that up to your distro.

my educated guess is that your distro is providing some emergency
kernel for you that comes with a minimized initrd? If that's the case
it's purely the decision of your distro what to put in there and what
not.

So you are barking up the very very wrong tree here. Go, complain to
your distro instead, we have nothing to do with that.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Berlin