F21 emergency.target when root pw isn't set

Chris Murphy lists at colorremedies.com
Thu Dec 18 22:30:41 UTC 2014


On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Adam Williamson
<adamwill at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 11:31 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Since systemd requires root password to use emergency shell,
>> shouldn't there be a generic password set for the livecd? Right now I
>> can't boot single user mode for example, because a root password is
>> required. If I just control-D it continues onto graphical boot which
>> isn't what I want. I have found no work around for this.
>
> init=/bin/bash
>
> There was a fun bug with that if you had encrypted filesystems in F20,
> but I think it's fixed now.

WTH, I tried that earlier and got a kernel panic twice in a row, and I
just tried it again and now I'm not.

!


-- 
Chris Murphy


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