Fix ZFS root import stall on baremetal-gui reboot #41

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beatzaplenty merged 1 commits from worktree-baremetal-emergency-access into main

2026-07-22 03:48:48 +00:00

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
beatzaplenty	5d7a6327b7	Allow initrd emergency shell access on baremetal-gui Check NixOS configurations / eval-hosts (pull_request) Successful in 10m45s Details The systemd-based initrd (default here, since this host has a ZFS root) locks the root account by default, so sulogin refuses a shell if something in the initrd fails and it drops to emergency mode -- confirmed live: it just loops re-entering the target instead of prompting, making an initrd-level ZFS import failure impossible to diagnose from the console. Only affects the pre-switch-root initrd shell, not the installed system's own login.	2026-07-22 03:47:54 +00:00

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beatzaplenty

5d7a6327b7

Allow initrd emergency shell access on baremetal-gui

Check NixOS configurations / eval-hosts (pull_request) Successful in 10m45s

Details

The systemd-based initrd (default here, since this host has a ZFS
root) locks the root account by default, so sulogin refuses a shell
if something in the initrd fails and it drops to emergency mode --
confirmed live: it just loops re-entering the target instead of
prompting, making an initrd-level ZFS import failure impossible to
diagnose from the console. Only affects the pre-switch-root initrd
shell, not the installed system's own login.

2026-07-22 03:47:54 +00:00