Booting to emergency mode with "emergency" parameter broken in RHEL6

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • According to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 documentation (Installation Guide), there is an option to boot into emergency mode using the keyword "emergency" in the GRUB kernel line, but it doesn't seem to work. Is it a bug? Or is the "emergency" kernel argument no longer supported?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 - 6.1
  • initscripts rpm version prior to initscripts-9.03.27-1.el6

Subscriber exclusive content

A Red Hat subscription provides unlimited access to our knowledgebase, tools, and much more.

Current Customers and Partners

Log in for full access

Log In

New to Red Hat?

Learn more about Red Hat subscriptions

Using a Red Hat product through a public cloud?

How to access this content