Pascal Cavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > not exactly. that's the case for "reinstalling bootloader" for > > example. all experts know easily how to do that, but there is a > > menu entry, because the rescue is not only for experts. same > > applies to "reboot". > > That's what I wanted to read, at last. > however you still think rebuilding an initrd is easy for newbies, and would > not benefit from a new menu entry in rescue, only because it does not happen > often?
?? Re-read me. I don't pretend that "not often" implies "easy". > In fact we disagree on the goal of the rescue disk menu, I think. Personnaly i > would put in this menu all easy means to recover from well know bad **well known**, exactly. > situations (especially for newbies): > - corrupted boot sector agreed. > - corrupted initrd disagreed. > - lost root passwd "linux 1" or "linux single" is just as easy (it needs to be known, but the manual and online docs is here for that). > - FS checks done at boot. > - restore a linux system from a backup ( oops you dont have this tool) > - and last console mode for experts for all other difficult cases. > > that's my view of a good rescue tool from my experience on ibm Aix... > > I guess our disagrement comes from very different point of view of rescue. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
