From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4154F138B26 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2014 13:15:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E0E9E0BF4; Sun, 2 Nov 2014 13:15:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com (mail-wi0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 101ACE0A92 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2014 13:14:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f182.google.com with SMTP id d1so4446932wiv.3 for ; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 05:14:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type; bh=PFMMzqN+73FvIVqnAJwzhUjNfIHIoN/BwApbMDSeoSw=; b=Qdu8bz/nW1koGQv2H5W0vDxvVIvi6QDyjweHETj0oZL+8uhdSd4e8S0fzu/vfRWYHU v2Ug9hdW4KbHR0uLLwSnyq8n5AIS0yEFZuIWOlAREQBcf0t8piJchH92JDQIA4WGU4OM yTGCVPXynqRaVsI7Y2GQyuIBRlME9QVPCxprwc5mj0PoII51tosQqQfB7lv4ML+tiN8m /xAn5ATv95202jA6xOjOmEyLJxCff1soRPVyw3tDbOzvYL26UIl/t/ULGpaTdI+EZAad rI0h+EWJ3TIOJMim4h5Ua6sRqY+pJbzNbRUYoODcOem+wdYdr82pDCoR3/HSmlMstjXm WP8Q== X-Received: by 10.180.221.129 with SMTP id qe1mr9798255wic.21.1414934097753; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 05:14:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.178.21] (pD952D2AE.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [217.82.210.174]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id cv7sm3657784wjc.3.2014.11.02.05.14.56 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 02 Nov 2014 05:14:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54562E50.1060306@googlemail.com> Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:14:56 +0100 From: Volker Armin Hemmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels References: <78607509.rcQ5WraxNG@wstn> <269dc585-c80c-49a7-a407-a419532273b3@email.android.com> <6265695.KFjBVVdADM@wstn> <3a387dc4-9da1-49e4-82e3-cc60379fe381@email.android.com> In-Reply-To: <3a387dc4-9da1-49e4-82e3-cc60379fe381@email.android.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------020108020707050005090804" X-Archives-Salt: 39c93c87-2799-4b5c-a029-ff53ad8a58b1 X-Archives-Hash: 1a901492945c5398dda90e0b43c0ab0a This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020108020707050005090804 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Am 01.11.2014 um 23:28 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On 1 November 2014 17:19:18 WET, Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > On Saturday 01 November 2014 15:38:43 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > One useful feature for me is that grub2 will boot from an ISO > image, I always keep system rescue cd image in /boot. > > > We all have our own ways of doing things. My equivalent to that is to have a > small rescue system in its own partition on each box, tailored to its > companion main system. > > > That's what I used to do until I found grub 2 could boot an ISO. Now I > only need to copy one file to /boot to update my rescue setup. > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. I have an usb stick for that. Advantage: even if the ssd containing / and /boot dies, I can get to my data in /home. --------------020108020707050005090804 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Am 01.11.2014 um 23:28 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
On 1 November 2014 17:19:18 WET, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: 
On Saturday 01 November 2014 15:38:43 Neil Bothwick wrote:


 One useful feature for me is that grub2 will boot from an ISO image, I
 always keep  system rescue cd image in /boot.


We all have our own ways of doing things. My equivalent to that is to have a 
small rescue system in its own partition on each box, tailored to its 
companion main system.

That's what I used to do until I found grub 2 could boot an ISO. Now I only need to copy one file to /boot to update my rescue setup.
--
Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

I have an usb stick for that. Advantage: even if the ssd containing / and /boot dies, I can get to my data in /home.
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