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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue)
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:33:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <428A2AEA.40001@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1116348700.14290.32.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net>

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Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> A much better approach would be for there to be a rescue build,
> completely independent of the stages, since it doesn't need to mirror
> them in any way.  It should be extracted (self-extracted?) to something
> like /rescue and executed from there, being completely self-contained.
> This keeps it from stomping on system files and breaking
> collision-protect or doing anything else nasty like hosing configuration
> files (ever made the mistake of extracting a stage onto a live
> filesystem?) when unpacked.

This sounds a lot like saying, use an initrd, but when you pivot roots
to the live filesystem, leave it mounted somewhere.
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-17 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-15 21:18 [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) Mike Frysinger
2005-05-15 21:19 ` Tom Wesley
2005-05-15 21:21 ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-05-15 21:24 ` Carlos Silva
2005-05-16 13:44   ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-05-15 21:29 ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-05-15 22:32   ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-05-15 22:45     ` Krzysiek Pawlik
2005-05-15 22:48     ` Ryan
2005-05-15 23:29       ` Sami Samhuri
2005-05-15 23:41     ` david stanek
2005-05-16  0:22       ` Mike Frysinger
2005-05-16  1:12       ` John Myers
2005-05-16  1:56         ` David Stanek
2005-05-16  2:24           ` David Stanek
2005-05-16 10:24           ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-05-16 11:20             ` Jan Kundrát
2005-05-16 13:38               ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-05-16 13:48                 ` Jan Kundrát
2005-05-16 11:33             ` [gentoo-dev] " Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2005-05-16 13:48               ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-05-15 21:31 ` [gentoo-dev] " Olivier Crête
2005-05-16 13:57   ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-05-16 22:11     ` Pete Ezzo
2005-05-17  0:48     ` Olivier Crête
2005-05-17 16:51       ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-05-17 17:33         ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
2005-05-17 17:51           ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-05-24 21:11             ` [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) ro-overlays Jim Northrup
2005-05-24 21:48               ` Mike Frysinger
2005-05-24 22:34                 ` Jim Northrup
2005-05-24 22:40                   ` Mike Frysinger
2005-05-24 23:44                     ` Stuart Longland
2005-05-25 13:32               ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-05-25 16:50                 ` James Northrup
2005-05-16  4:07 ` [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) Sami Samhuri
2005-05-16  4:29   ` David Stanek
2005-05-16  7:09     ` Colin Kingsley
2005-05-16  8:48 ` Chris Bainbridge
2005-05-18  7:07 ` [gentoo-dev] " R Hill

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