On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:11 PM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > > > Also, as Rich said, if you wait it's possible that systemd (and/or dracut) > > will drop you into a rescue shell anyway. Unfortunately, thanks to very > > slow hardware in the wild, the timeout has been increased to three minutes, > > and I believe those are *per hardware unit*. So if you have five disks, in > > theory it could take fifteen minutes to get you to a rescue shell. > > Thanks much. Does the rescue target try to mount all the disks? Also, > I would still like to get in touch with the dracut devs -- although I > may never make that particular mistake again, but maybe other things > will happen.
As I said in my previous mail: emergency mounts the root filesystem read-only; rescue mounts all the filesystems read/write. If dracut cannot mount the root filesystem, it *WILL* drop you to a shell, but it will take some time while all the timeouts expire. This could be *several* minutes depending on hardware. The dracut mailing list is in [1]. Regards. [1] http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#initramfs -- Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
