From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4OLmPVu032507 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 21:48:25 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DahGD-0005ze-3n for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 May 2005 21:48:25 +0000 Received: (qmail 28094 invoked from network); 24 May 2005 17:46:36 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 24 May 2005 17:46:36 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) ro-overlays Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 17:48:59 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200505151718.06501.vapier@gentoo.org> <1116352313.14290.34.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <42939879.1050608@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <42939879.1050608@comcast.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505241748.59896.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: c1525381-3c70-4b54-a223-44cbcdf63603 X-Archives-Hash: 5b8766f21d5067581d2164d686aaff39 On Tuesday 24 May 2005 05:11 pm, Jim Northrup wrote: > but a CF-based or initrd root available when /lib goes to hell is > an absolute must for supporting fault tolerance. do you mean like the disk underneath /lib is blown to crap or a bad glibc is merged ? if the latter, then the new busybox can help ... just boot with init=/bin/bb and you should have plenty of tools to recover with -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list