On 9 May 2007, Michael Tokarev spake thusly:
> Nix wrote:
>> On 8 May 2007, Michael Tokarev told this:
>>> BTW, for such recovery purposes, I use initrd (initramfs really, but
>>> does not matter) with a normal (but tiny) set of commands inside,
>>> thanks to busybox. So everything can be done without any help from
>>> external "recovery CD". Very handy at times, especially since all
>>> the network drivers are here on the initramfs too, so I can even
>>> start a netcat server while in initramfs, and perform recovery from
>>> remote system... ;)
>>
>> What you should probably do is drop into the shell that's being used to
>> run init if mount fails (or, more generally, if after mount runs it
>
> That's exactly what my initscript does ;)
I thought so. I was really talking to Mark, I suppose.
> chk() {
> while ! "$@"; do
> warn "the following command failed:"
> warn "$*"
> p="** Continue(Ignore)/Shell/Retry (C/s/r)? "
Wow. Feature-rich :)) I may reused this rather nifty stuff.
>> hasn't ended up mounting anything: there's no need to rely on mount's
>> success/failure status). [...]
>
> Well, so far exitcode has been reliable.
I guess I was being paranoid because I'm using busybox and at various
times the exitcodes of its internal commands have been... unimplemented
or unreliable.
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