Thomas Lange wrote:
If you have any troubles during the boot process of your install
clients and they can't mount the nfsroot, you like to have a shell for
debuging.
You can get a shell by adding break=bottom as kernel parameter (in
a pxelinux.cfg file). This stops the boot process and spaws a shell
within the initramfs. Other values for break= can be found if you search
all initramfs scripts for the subroutine maybe_break:
maybe_break top
maybe_break modules
maybe_break premount
maybe_break mount
maybe_break mountroot
maybe_break bottom
maybe_break init
maybe_break live-premount
maybe_break live-bottom
maybe_break pre-mdadm
maybe_break post-mdadm
Wow. Just having read the manpage for initramfs-tools, I see the break
parameter can be *very* helpful. I'm currently debugging a kernel panic
and this is sure to be a useful tool. Thanks for the tip, Thomas!
Respectfully,
Ryan
