[OE-core] [PATCH] init-live: default to initrd shell if image isn't found

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Mon Dec 17 12:14:11 UTC 2012


On 17 December 2012 12:09, Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> I don't like to get a shell at users as he might be an end user and
> don't know what to do so I'd prefer to have a proper error message and
> support the shell as fallback depending on a boot param or so (so it
> can be used during development).
>
> Another issue is the amount of time waiting ... I have hardware that
> takes up to 8s to be ready so 3s is too short and the amount of time.
> The time to wait should be configurable by bootparam too (and
> documented in commitlog).

At the end of the day this is a developer's rescue mode, so activating
this based on the debug-tweaks distro feature makes sense.

Ross




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