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On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:01:32 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > Read my other mail and pay attention to the difference between |
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> > transient and persistent. |
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> In my proposed solution, the executables in /sbin would only exist until |
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> /usr had been mounted and the runtime PATH set up. After the |
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> unification of /usr, /sbin won't even exist (apart from in schemes like |
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> mine). |
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What happens to files that are installed to /bin, /sbin or /lib by |
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default? Where do kernel modules go? |
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> I look forward with foreboding to the time when such recovery will not |
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> be possible. Only a legacy Gentoo system or a recovery CD will help |
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> then. I think it highly probable that "can't boot" bugs will continue |
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> to happen occasionally. I'd like to carry on having a bootable |
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> skeleton system for when this happens. |
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When an initramfs fails to boot, it drops you to a busybox shell, |
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although I also have a SystemRescueCD ISO in /boot for such situations. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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