rescue mode
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed Sep 17 05:47:38 UTC 2008
Brennan Ashton wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 10:59 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
>> This bug, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=159287, is an
>> enhancement proposal. It's been around for years, and as of now it
>> hasn't been done.
>>
>> Its purpose is to add a rescue mode to the actual running system - no
>> messy alternative boot media required.
>>
>> It requires added function to nash and to mkinitrd, not a lot at all.
>>
>> Please review the bug report, and if you think this is something that
>> should be done _now_, please speak up and say so.
>>
>> I tried to use it a few minutes ago on my system that does not boot. It
>> does not work.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Cheers
>> John
> I would think it would loose a lot of the rescue features, most of what
> I see is people running into rescue mode to fix an LVM issue. If the LVM
> tools are not available that is not going to help. What were you
> thinking of in particular?
>
If the content is user-configurable as I suggested, the lvm tools could
be included in the rescue initd.
Remember, this initrd would not be loaded for normal use, only when one
might otherwise reach for a rescue CD.
Modern computer have heaps of RAM even to load quite a unrespectably
large image!
It might not help people with small computers; they just turn off that
functionality and proceed as before.
--
Cheers
John
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