[14:22] <eest> i have a 20.04 cloud image based ubuntu machine where i was trying to drop to a root shell by doing "init=/bin/bash" as a linux param in grub, but from looking at the boot it seems it first tries to do a initrdless boot, crash, then use the ordinary initrd boot and now my init=/bin/bash is no longer present on the kernel command line, im guessing that the kernel panic induced crash means the second boot 
[14:22] <eest> will re-read the config and therefore lose my edit, is this expected?