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

Dick Gevers dvgevers at xs4all.nl
Tue Nov 29 20:48:16 CET 2011


On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:41:02 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote about Re:
[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release kernel-3.1.3-1.mga2:

>'Twas brillig, and Dick Gevers at 28/11/11 19:12 did gyre and gimble:

>> 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.

Super, expected stg like that, but just wanted to be sure. Thanks mucho!

:)
=Dick Gevers=


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