rescue mode

[John Summerfield]

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.




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Cheers
John

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