On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 15:10, Joost Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 01 June 2011 11:52:25 Pandu Poluan wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 03:35, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Tuesday 31 May 2011 21:02:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > I see. In my head it is as if we're going against the udev principle of >> > populating required device nodes. If udev does not start, isn't it time >> > to head for the nearest LiveCD, or must we ensure that every breakage >> > is fixable in single-user mode? >> >> There are cases for each, but I personally prefer going single-user. >> Especially when working on virtualized servers. > > +1 > Even though with virtualized servers, using Xen, it's possible to access the > filesystem easily from the host. >
Well, in my case, the servers ran as VMs on top of VMware in my Cloud Provider's infrastructure... No consoling into the hypervisor, understandably. And even worse: Can't attach the virtual hard disk to another live VM. Either I have to boot with a LiveCD, or go into single-user. The former took quite some time to boot, so I really prefer the latter. Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com
