'interactive' boot

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 10 17:05:09 UTC 2008


Mani A (a.mani.cms at gmail.com) said: 
> In Fedora 10 Preview (full install), I cannot get into interactive boot mode.
> 
> Boot without 'rhgb quiet'.
> 
> Pressing 'I' at the usual stage does not work
> 
> The main difference is \home is on an encrypted xfs partition, so I
> get the password prompt for that after
> the "Press I for interactive startup" and 'udev  OK' messages.

You'll have to hit it again once you're done entering the encrpytion
passphrase, as the keyboard buffer is consumed by that. There's really
no 'fix' or workaround - that's just how it has to work.

Bill




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