I'm pretty comfortable with the failsafes that we have in place: * /sbin/init is static * If /bin/sh fails, /rescue/sh can be run * /rescue provides a complete set of statically-linked sysadmin utilities that should be sufficient for recovering a damaged system.
There are a few things I'd like to see: * It would be nice if the kernel noticed that /sbin/init failed too quickly and prompted the user for an alternate init. That would open the door to a dynamic or just more ambitious /sbin/init, since you could always fall back to /rescue/init for recovery. * /rescue/vi is currently unusable if /usr is missing because the termcap database is in /usr. One possibility would be to build a couple of default termcap entries into ncurses or into vi.
Just put a tiny termcap file in /rescue (i.e. termcap.rescue) that contains 5 or 6 of the most common terminal types (cons25, vt102, etc), and have /rescue/vi default to cons25. That is cleaner than hard coding them into /rescue/vi.
Richard Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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