Casey Dahlin <cdahlin(a)redhat.com> writes:
On an unrelated note I don't see as much value in having a
rescue
image on the drive. If my system can't rescue itself, 9 times out of
10 the boot loader is what went, and then how do I start my rescue
image?
If it's just the boot loader, fixing it is easy and takes just one
reboot. If, on the other hand, the initrd is messed up, fixing it can
take a lot of reboots with various attempts. Today, each of those
involves a PXE boot followed by fetching the stage 2 image over the
LAN. It would be a lot quicker to boot directly into a rescue image.
I am considering following Lyos Gemini Norezel's example. It would be
even nicer if the initrd had rudimentary recovery tools though. A
busybox with cat would have helped me out a lot on at least three
occassions, where I ended up repeatedly booting from rescue, unpacking
the initrd, and trying to figure out what was wrong inside it.
/Benny