Hi list, I installed openSUSE 12.1 on an PC-Engines Alix system board, which uses the pata_amd driver to access its compact flash disk. Since I installed the system on a virtual machine before putting the flash in the real hardware, the driver was not included in the initrd image and obviously I couldn't see the disk on the real hardware. Booting the compact flash in the virtual machine and rebuilding the initrd image with the driver included solved the issue. However, I tried quite hard to get a shell early during the boot process, in the initrd environment, before trying to mount anything, but failed. I tried the various "Single", "S", "1", "init=/bin/bash", etc, as in older systems, but none stopped before trying to mount /dev/sda1. Then I tried "systemd.unit=emergency.target", but that didn't stop before trying to mount the disk. Since I'm very new to systemd, I'd like to know how to get a shell as early as possible during the boot process in order to easily troubleshoot situations where rootfs (or even the whole disk) is not accessible at boot time for some reason. Thanks, Javier -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org