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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Remote install @Hetzner
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:09:14
Message-Id: 20080621200818.GC8631@nibiru.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Remote install @Hetzner by Enrico Weigelt
1 * Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote:
2
3 > One nice tip:
4 >
5 > Put a small wrapper in middle between init and rc which redirects
6 > output to some file (needs rootfs mounted rw, of course). So you can
7 > later see from rescue system what was happening :)
8
9 Beware: this has one drawback:
10 If you're logging to the rootfs, it cannot be remounted ro in
11 /etc/init.d/checkroot, and if that failed - the machine's
12 unbootable again :(
13
14 I've changed it to just print out an warning instead of holding
15 up the whole boot process.
16
17
18 cu
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21 Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/
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23 Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce:
24 http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce
25 Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions:
26 http://patches.metux.de/
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