[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release kernel-3.1.3-1.mga2

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Dick Gevers at 28/11/11 19:12 did gyre and gimble:
> On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:17:34 +0100 (CET), Mageia Team wrote about
> [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release kernel-3.1.3-1.mga2:
> 
>> Name        : kernel                       Relocations: (not relocatable)
>> Version     : 3.1.3                             Vendor: Mageia.Org
>> Release     : 1.mga2                        Build Date: Sun Nov 27
>> 16:55:15 2011
> 
>> tmb <tmb> 3.1.3-1.mga2:
>> + Revision: 172918
> 
> Hello Thomas,
> 
> I remark that on an already systemd enabled Cauldron (*), the grub parameter
> is now added 'init=/sbin/systemd'. Is this always needed? Or just added in
> case it is not already configured okay?

It's not needed if you have systemd-sysvinit installed, but by the same
token, if you already have it in your menu.lst then the bootloader code
will simply preserve it when adding a new kernel. It's dumb code (in a
nice way!) so it's not specifically caring that it's an init= argument
or that it's anything to do with systemd.

So if you want cleaner boot command lines, just tidy up your menu.lst
manually and they will no longer be added to new kernels. Hope that
makes sense.

Col


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