Kernel Modules in Fedora -x

[Roland McGrath]

> - a majority of "won't boot" bugs are of the form where it fails to find
>   the root filesystem.  Quite often this ends up being a busted initrd
>   for whatever reason.  There's not really a good way to debug this
>   other than to pull apart a good and bad one, and see if the bad one
>   lacks modules that were in the good one for eg.

It would be nice to have the initrd /init shell grok some kernel command
line option to enable -x style output for the initrd, so you can tell
exactly what commands were run and compare that to output from a working boot.