Bug#751585: systemd: opens emergency shell after prompting for unnecessary dm-crypt passwords

[Michael Biebl]

Am 14.06.2014 16:59, schrieb Michael Gold:

> I didn't retry, and since I had some difficulty recovering (see bug
> #751589) I'd rather not do it on this system.  I was thinking of trying
> in a VM but that might take a while.


Just install the systemd package (but not systemd-sysv) and keep
sysvinit-core installed.

Then you can easily boot with systemd by specifying the kernel command
line parameter
init=/lib/systemd/systemd

This allows you to test systemd without replacing sysvinit as default init.

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