Document all facets of rescue mode; traditional and fallback

Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
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Joachim Wiberg
2021-04-25 22:46:43 +02:00
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* `quiet`: Suppress kernel logging to console, except for warnings and
errors.
* `rescue`: Start Finit rescue mode; no network, no `fsck` of file
systems in `/etc/fstab`, no `/etc/rc.local`, no `runparts`. The
configuration is read from `/lib/finit/rescue.conf`, and can be
modified by the operator.
* `rescue`: Start rescue/maintenance mode. If your system comes with
the bundled `sulogin` program (Finit, or from util-linux/Busybox),
you will be given a root login to a maintenance shell. However, if
`sulogin` is missing, the file `/lib/finit/rescue.conf` is read and
the system booted in a limited fallback mode. See [config.md][]
for more information.
* `single`, or `S`: Single user mode, runlevel 1, in Finit. Useful to
debug problems with the regular runlevel. All services and TTYs in
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For more on kernel boot paramaters, see the man page [bootparam(7)][].
[config.md][]: config.md#rescue-mode
[bootparam(7)]: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/bootparam.7.html