Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 05:11 pm, Jim Northrup wrote:
but a CF-based or initrd root available when /lib goes to hell is
an absolute must for supporting fault tolerance.
do you mean like the disk underneath /lib is blown to crap or a bad glibc is
merged ?
if the latter, then the new busybox can help ... just boot with init=/bin/bb
and you should have plenty of tools to recover with
-mike
great advice.
I've learned whenever md or devfs rework occurs, or the **/sbin tools
get rev'd, its foolish to proceed without a rescue nearby.
of course bb is a space-saver, but i find myself turning the room upside
down for full-static versions of tar, nc and fileutils
Jim
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