Jon Masters wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 13:03 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
Hm. I can see the use of this, but I can also see issues with how you do updates for it sanely (if at all.)
Why would you do updates for it? Your install CD/DVD to use for rescue boot doesn't get updated. I'd think you'd just install a pristine newer one verbatim if you had a reason to bother, like deciding to burn a new CD. Hence the nice automagic deployment feature would reserve two partitions (or whatevers) for the purpose, so you can install the new image on B and still have the option to boot A if the new one is bad.
So I'm willing to help out on this (once RHEL stuff calms down a bit). Do you think it's worth us putting together a wiki feature proposal?
Jon.
Is it better to have a separate volume for this, or to just have a sort of rescue initramfs ...?
Seems like the latter is more flexible but then I'm no boot process wizard.
-Eric