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udev start in current provokes kernel crash because (wrong?) boot option

I switched today to slackware-current on one of my desktops to play with it and ran directly into a problem.

Since ages my lilo.conf has two entries for slackware. One for runlevel 3 and one for runlevel 4.

Code:

lba32

boot = /dev/sda1

compact



bitmap = /boot/slack.bmp

bmp-colors = 255,0,255,0,255,0

bmp-table = 60,6,1,16

bmp-timer = 65,27,0,255



append=" vt.default_utf8=1"

prompt

timeout = 50

vga = 794



image = /boot/vmlinuz

  root = /dev/mapper/crypt-vg-root

  initrd = /boot/initrd.gz

  label = Slackware

  append = "init 4"

  read-only



image = /boot/vmlinuz

  root = /dev/mapper/crypt-vg-root

  initrd = /boot/initrd.gz

  label = Slackware-r3

  append = "init 3"

  read-only

Since the upgrade this is no more possible because I get a kernel panic as soon as udevadm trigger is called. The stack says something about an unknown boot option. Because that i removed the append lines from my lilo.conf and i was able to boot the system. The crash happens when udev is called from within the ramdisk and afterwards. I tried both.

My question is now. Is this a bug in udev or expected? I have this setup since at least 5 years and had never problems with that. What do I have to do to be able to select the runlevel at boot time?

The init parameter should be used to specifiy the init program, like this

Code:

init=/sbin/init

or this

Code:

init=/bin/bash

. Try specifying the runlevel alone like this

Code:

addappend = " 3"

The addapend syntax adds the section-specific data to the global "append" you have, above. So, you'd use one append = " vt.default_utf8=1" in a global area (as you have) and then addapend = 3 or addappend = 4 in the appropriate section.

You don't need 'init 3' and/or 'init 4'. Just '3' or '4'. Give that a try.

Adam

Thanks adamk75 and jamesf,

Code:

image = /boot/vmlinuz

  root = /dev/mapper/crypt-vg-root

  initrd = /boot/initrd.gz

  label = Slackware-r3

  append = " 3"

  read-only

Does the job. But strange that it worked without any issue before. I learned something :)