[Mageia-dev] init=systemd

Mon Dec 12 12:50:08 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Olivier Blin at 11/12/11 13:56 did gyre and gimble:
+> Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org> writes:
+> 
+>> Charles A Edwards skrev 8.12.2011 01:40:
+>>> I've noticed on the latest tmb kernels (those after 3.0.8-1) that
+>>> init=systemd is now being auto added to the lilo append.
+>>>
+>>> Thankfully that did not cause a boot issue on this system for I am
+>>> still using sysvinit here and Not systemd-sysvinit.
+>>>
+>>> Should it now be auto added with kernels on all systems???
+>>>
+>>
+>> AFAIK it should only happend if you had it on the command line for the
+>> kernel you was running when you installed next kernel.
+> 
+> Well, init=/bin/systemd is forced by drakxtools on each kernel install,
+> if /bin/systemd exists (which means always, since systemd is required by
+> basesystem). See /usr/lib/libDrakX/bootloader.pm
+> 
+> This is pretty bad, we should not do it if we still want to keep
+> sysvinit compatibility in Mageia 2.
+> 
+
+Oh boy, I certainly wasn't aware of that bit of code. It seems crazy
+code to me (duplicating what installing systemd-sysvinit package does.
+There is literally no need for that whole section, so I'd just strip it out.
+
+Col
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