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 E146B138825 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2014 17:19:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B850E0C19; Sat, 1 Nov 2014 17:19:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E62E0C11 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2014 17:19:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XkcKd-0009yI-3A for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:19:19 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:19:18 +0000 Message-ID: <6265695.KFjBVVdADM@wstn> Organization: Society for Retired Gentlefolk User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.16.5-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <269dc585-c80c-49a7-a407-a419532273b3@email.android.com> References: <78607509.rcQ5WraxNG@wstn> <269dc585-c80c-49a7-a407-a419532273b3@email.android.com> 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01a-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: a862f406-17f1-4fa0-9577-0ac33f5c110e X-Archives-Hash: 0f31691afdc985474e29e6cbe9df1143 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. -- Rgds Peter