On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 21:22 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 03:13:21PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > Is it better to have a separate volume for this, or to just have a sort > > of rescue initramfs ...? > > Or if you are able to run a little bit of C code[1] and can read files > from the root partition (as grub can), you can build one on the fly > using binaries, libraries etc found on the root disk, which is what we > do in libguestfs. I specifically think this is not the solution :) It's great for libguestfs, but the idea here is to have known-good binaries that can be used to recover a system - and that change very rarely indeed (on the same order as the "physical" media containing the installer) - when it is broken during an update or otherwise. If the system is already busticated, then building images from it will not help. A recovery initramfs could be used. It could just basically be the rescue mode anaconda bits in one image shoved in place to start. Jon. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
