On 08/14/2016 05:31 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 10:38:13 +0200, aitor wrote in message > <[email protected]>: > >> >> Hi Edward, >> >> On 08/14/2016 10:20 AM, Edward Bartolo wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Does anyone know when vdev will be ready for DEVUAN 64 bit? >>> >>> Edward >> >> Today i'm working on vdev. First of all, i'm working on how to >> restore the system if it fails. > > ..one way is have an usb key with an usb-live distro handy, > (I use an old Debian-Live Wheezy to 'fsck -fy $ROOT') and > chroot in from that. > > ..another way is set up grub to chainload iso-images you wanna > use to rescue your test system from a any vdev accident. > > ..a third way is setup grub with both vdev and m|eu|etc|dev stanzas > the way we do with systemd-and-sysv stanza pairs so we can go back > to the "old working systemd" etc way ;o) and fix our mistakes. > > ..one neat thing about grub, is its shell, once you get the menu, > hit "e" and then the tab key twice, and play around to familiarize > yourselves with how it works, e.g how it finds disks, files, and > how you can boot into root's shell with e.g. "init=/bin/bash". >
I managed to boot with udev after running Ralph's script and booting with vdev. I had previously made a backup copy of the original initrd. The tricky part is that udev is disabled, so you have to start it manually. At the grub menu, press e to edit the boot entry. Change /initrd.img to point to your backup copy. Add 'init=/bin/bash' to the linux line. Or, you could create an entry that already has those changes before you try rebooting. When you get to the root prompt, run /etc/init.d/udev start /etc/init.d/udev-finish start (not sure if this one is necessary) exec /sbin/init -fsr _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
