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[Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>]

Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> It can, there's an ESSENTIAL="yes" line that can be added to the init 
> script.  It's been in sorcery for a long time (hence everybody forgot 
> about it).
>
> But, that means it is essential on EVERY system and cannot be disabled 
> except by prodding (an extra confirmation).  Failures in essential init 
> scripts will complain loudly during init process (and might even do 
> more).
>
> I wrote the initial logic for the default to no except essential 
> scripts.  The system asks all these questions when you start casting 
> stuff.  It's best to heed them.
>
> And, I'm wondering how it turns the box into unusable?  If it does THAT, 
> then it is clear we need either an essential init script added or some 
> more logic added to an already existing essential init script.  Thus, 
> bug, file, now, as Andrew says. ;)
>
> Seth

It essentially disabled udev, nothing mounted, the / filestem was
read-only (even though mount said otherwise) and I couldn't mount
things.  I couldn't install the scripts since the filesystem was ro.  A
lot of things failed to start.