Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.92a Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hello, this bug originates after bug #478268 [1]. On Wed, 14 May 2008 11:23:00 +0200, David Härdeman wrote: > initramfs will behave differently if the "panic" kernel option is set > (initramfs will not spawn any shells in that case but reboot instead). I couldn't understand why the "break" kernel option didn't work while I was trying to debug a problem in cryptsetup [2] and indeed my kernel cmdline contains a "panic=10" option as well. Removing the latter allows "break" to work. I've found the initramfs-tools.8 documentation a bit misleading, thus I propose the following patch (if I understand correctly David's words): --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- diff --git a/initramfs-tools.8 b/initramfs-tools.8 index 83884b7..fe64add 100644 --- a/initramfs-tools.8 +++ b/initramfs-tools.8 @@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ Use for example "debug=vc". spawns a shell in the initramfs image at chosen run-time (top, modules, premount, mount, bottom, init). The default is premount without any arg. +Please pay attention that when both "panic" and "break" are present, +initramfs will not spawn any shells but reboot instead. .SH HOOK SCRIPTS --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=yes&bug=478268#27 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=yes&bug=478268#15 -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on: ii cpio 2.9-13 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii findutils 4.4.0-2 utilities for finding files--find, ii klibc-utils 1.5.9-2 small utilities built with klibc f ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii udev 0.114-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends: ii busybox 1:1.9.2-3 Tiny utilities for small and embed -- no debconf information
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