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 j4HHXNAw000009 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 17:33:23 GMT Received: from c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net ([67.171.150.177] helo=[192.168.1.106]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DY5wg-0001B8-MS for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 17:33:30 +0000 Message-ID: <428A2AEA.40001@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:33:30 -0700 From: Donnie Berkholz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050411) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) References: <200505151718.06501.vapier@gentoo.org> <1116192710.8413.6.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <1116251834.14448.77.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <1116290915.10849.8.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <1116348700.14290.32.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> In-Reply-To: <1116348700.14290.32.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c14f7120-20ab-4da8-9b55-953f0dc3a7b6 X-Archives-Hash: 91d395d2895ffea20b6192203c7cce2c -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCiirqXVaO67S1rtsRAgHyAJ49adhPpYhwHqUeFNMw4I6h+GUyDwCfbwMB rgA0GKbYsBjd8K9I7X2pyE8= =tZSe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list