On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 15:16 -0400, Jeffrey Layton wrote: > 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 will have a relatively significant impact on the size of the initramfs and thus on the memory profile. Although I see it's not enabled by default, which is at least a plus It also won't handle filesystems other than ext3. > 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. PXE, copying the pxeboot vmlinuz/initrd into your grub.conf and a few other things can give you a way to boot rescue mode without having to put in a CD. If you're having to run mkinitrd with different command line arguments, then you've already lost if you've really hosed your system badly. Honestly, I'd really rather see improvements to rescue mode than something like this. Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
