[arch-general] When will Arch switch to Systemd

Ng Oon-Ee ngoonee at gmail.com
Thu Jan 20 08:26:40 EST 2011


On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 14:11 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have been working on integration of Arch and Systemd.

Very much appreciated, thank you!
> 
> Regarding people who are worried about getting an unbootable system:
> systemd and sysvinit can (and should) be installed in parallel, so you
> can switch between them by adding "init=/bin/systemd" to your kernel
> line in GRUB (so if it does break your boot, you can just reboot back
> into sysvinit).
> 
That would be me. This above only holds if we don't utilize the
initscripts, right? I understood from the forum thread that using those
there'd be 'no turning back'. Never took the time to understand WHY, but
that's the impression I took away.




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