On 21 Oct 2002, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > come back up into the newly installed OS. The major assumption is > that you can get Grub to _not_ reboot into the "reinstall" target; > otherwise the machine will just reinstall itself endlessly. Wouldn't it suffice to simply have a separate tiny 'reinstall partition' [mounted at perhaps /mnt/reinstall], holding the required vmlinux and .img, and have it added as a secondary boot choice on the grub.conf collection of files? This would be sort of like the Compaq management partition (4 M, at partition 3) which is used if one hits the magic sequence (F-10) at BIOS time. Difference is we would wait until later, in 'grub' time. Being secondary, it should not loop endlessly. It could be password protected as well, to prevent inadvertent wipes. (/me files another item onto the to-do list ...) -- Russ Herrold
