rescue mode

[Todd Denniston]

John Summerfield wrote, On 09/17/2008 10:31 AM:
> 
> I'm digging around in the f9 netinst iso atm, trying to solve my kernel 
> problem. The initrd for this iso loads a 100 Mbyte or so ramdisk that 
> contains basically the rescue disk+installer. It shouldn't be hard to 
> copy this to the installed system and boot it from grub.
> 
> With the recover option, one would expect this might be regenerated as 
> new kernels (and tools) are installed.
> 

Careful with that thought, if it is automatically regenerated you might be 
stuck in the same situation you are now, i.e., bad kernel|mkinitrd no booty. :)

Also if you do something like that, I think you would want the image to have 
an rpm entry that made for it so rpm/yum would not remove THAT kernel until 
you have a new known good kernel and image set for your machine, even if you 
have more kernels than your installonly_limit setting.


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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter