On 23:18 Tue 16 Feb , Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 16 Februar 2010, Nick Bowler wrote: > > I put a complete set of recovery tools into my initramfses so that when > > the system is completely fucked up, I have a kernel that is able to boot > > until rdinit=/bin/zsh (or /bin/bb, if you prefer) takes over. > > > > This has the added advantage of working when the root filesystem cannot > > be mounted at all: a scenario which does not seem too far-fetched when > > the filesystem is located on a raid array. > > and what do you do if you have to boot from a cd/usb stick and need to access > the raid? > > Simple with auto assembling. Not so much without. The same initramfs can be used on a CD or USB stick. If you were referring to using someone else's CD or USB stick, then obviously mdadm will need to be available. -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
