On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 13:54:29 +0000
Stephanie Daugherty <sdaugherty@???> wrote:

> When recovering from systermd-related breakage while first trying out
> Debian jesse, I ended up booting with init=/bin/bash a lot.
>
> You can rather easily bring up a fully functional system that way, at
> least for long enough to fire up a browser, find the problem, and
> then recover.

Sometimes, sometimes not. I think it was Centos where I found the
initramfs sabotaged the user of init=/usr/bin/bash (Centos was the new
symlinked thang, and you can't use the symlink name that early in the
boot).


SteveT

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