>> Well I have a few things perhaps of interest.
>>
>> I have problems with the firstboot setup and root password. I am using
>> the
>> installer script and the --norootpass option. When I am prompted at the
>> setup, I ignore the setting of the root password. Fortunately I also did
>> not
>> set my user password and made my user have admin priv. Because when I
>> got to
>> login, it wanted a password for root and I could not figure out what. In
>> the
>> past I would just provide 'root' for the login and I was good. So I
>> logged in
>> with my user and did a 'sudo passwd root' to set the root password to
>> what I
>> wanted.
>
> I have to assume systemd is starting something like:
>
> /bin/bash -i
>
> rather than the former (and familiar) root shell without
> login authentication. The same behaviour may be done under
> older initscripts
>
> And put this in /etc/inittab if you want the behavior where it
> is not prompted:
>
> 1:2345:respawn:/bin/bash -i
The first line, and comment, in /etc/inittab says this file is no longer
used and any changes in it will have no effect on your system. All in caps
by the way.
> Robert -- could you check your system and see, and advise the
> list of the results of your examination?
So how is systemd started?
From the initrd. It's PID 1