https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=403995 User agraf@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=403995#c1 --- Comment #1 from Alexander Graf 2008-06-26 03:13:02 MDT --- We are seeing two distinct problems here. 1. - in keys does not get escaped. I will push a fix for that any minute. 2. init=/bin/bash --login is invalid. init= takes only one argument and every following argument is parsed as is. There is no way I am aware of to pass arguments to the init process. To verify this I booted a kernel w/o initrd in kvm using the following command line: qemu-kvm -drive file=/dev/sda,if=virtio,snapshot=on /dev/null -kernel /boot/virtio-kernel -append "init=/bin/bash root=/dev/vda1 console=ttyS0" -nographic This is the result: (none):/> cat /proc/cmdline init=/bin/bash root=/dev/vda1 console=ttyS0 So as you can see, the preceding arguments were still correctly parsed and not given to /bin/bash, which would have tried to run them. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.