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Bug#766447: add parameter to override the seconds of 'Will restart in 5 seconds.'



Control: reassign -1 initramfs-tools 0.118

On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 15:24 +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 3.16.5-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> Regarding
> 
>     'Attempt to start maintenance shell failed. Will restart in 5 seconds.'
> 
> 5 seconds is not long enough to read all but a few of the words on the screen.
> 
> Please add a boot parameter to control this.
> 
> Also document it in
> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt.gz
> and perhaps say "adjust with xyz=" right there in the message.
> 
> One would think that panic= is the parameter that is used, but it is not.

This is controlled by the initramfs, not the kernel.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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