* Marc 'Zugschlus' Haber <bts@bts.grml.org> [20080513 16:51]:

> when initrd cannot find the GRML boot medium, it drops me to a shell. If I am 
> able to fix the issue in this shell (for example, by finding the image myself), 
> I do not know how to make the boot process continue.

> Something along the line of "GRML file not found, invoking shell. If you want 
> the boot process to continue, type exit after mounting the GRML boot medium 
> to /cdrom" would be helpful here.

Yeah, I already talked to upstream of initramfs-tools. The
maintainer is willing to support such a feature. I'll meet the
maintainer in RL in the next few days and we will further discuss it
(and probbably implement it as well ;-)).

> Same goes for the other debug shells that may be invoked during the grml boot 
> process.

AFAICS only the busybox shell inside initramfs could be relevant,
nor?

thx && regards,
-mika-