I've opened a BZ ticket with a patch to add a rescue mode to the current devel version of mkinitrd, but wanted to post a message about it here since I know this is where most of the discussion occurs. The BZ ticket with the patch is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159287 Essentially this patch adds some functionality to mkinitrd and nash. This adds some tools to the initrd images (busybox and fsck, in particular), and adds a function to nash to allow running a shell before the switchroot occurs. This gives you some ability to troubleshoot booting problems, and gives the ability to do some rescue-type work without having to boot to the CD. This is a big plus for people that run boxes remotely and don't have easy physical access to them. The patch needs a little work,but a backported version basically worked for me on RHEL4. I have not yet tested it on Fedora but it should basically work there. Essentially, I'm sending this to solicit some feedback on it. Anyone have comments or concerns with this idea? -- Jeffrey Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
