Hello Debian team, I'd like to contact you about a method that no longer works when switching your init system. As an OpenRC fan (and by nature a Gentoo user), I have installed debian (stable branch) in a virtual machine. I decided to follow your wiki to fix an issue, but systemd doesn't stop running when invoking "systemctl rescue". My fix involves a chroot or using the rescue cd as opposed to "systemctl rescue". The gentoo wiki has you chroot like this, assuming you have a livecd present (word for word, from the gentoo wiki):
- root #mount /dev/sdX /mnt - root #mount --types proc /proc /mnt/proc - root #mount --rbind /sys /mnt/sys - root #mount --make-rslave /mnt/sys - root #mount --rbind /dev /mnt/dev - root #mount --make-rslave /mnt/dev - root #mount --bind /run /mnt/run - root #mount --make-slave /mnt/run - root #test -L /dev/shm && rm /dev/shm && mkdir /dev/shm - root #mount --types tmpfs --options nosuid,nodev,noexec shm /dev/shm ke-slave /mnt/run - root #chmod 1777 /dev/shm /run/shm - root #chroot /mnt /bin/bash - root #export PS1="(chroot) ${PS1}" Source:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base As an experienced Linux user (no I'm not an elitist, just a Gentoo user), I suggest updating your wiki to use this method if you already have a running system with Systemd installed. Thank you for reading this email, Josiah Cartier