We don't speak the same language, sorry. I am not asking what else I could do,
or that it would not work. I am trying to understand why it would not work. To
me, what is the purpose of a BE, if it will not boot? Wouldn't it be nice to
have a BE to which one can simply boot when disaster occurs? No?
The man-page says
The following are some of the tasks you can perform with
Live Upgrade software:
o You can make one or more copies of the currently
running system.
Fine but what for, except of a possible upgrade. The word 'copy' is misleading,
since it won't boot.
[i]that is not what the Live Upgrade technology is for[/i]. I got it know. Did
you get the point, that it was fabulous if it did provide a bootable
environment?
Okay, for the sake of the argument, if there was a good reason for not making a
system 'to be moved around' (what for, by the way, since it is FOSS?), then it
still would be a much nicer and safer way to live_upgrade(5), if a BE was
actually bootable per se. We read about failing BEs up and down, and always too
late, since a reboot is required and cumbersome repair if a BE fails after
luactivate and init 6. (Just read the instructions at the end of luactivate,
which never fit to the full screen, in any case, so that the user can't even
take note.)
Again, what could be the reason, that a BE is not bootable, neither before nor
after the luupgrade? What would be wrong with a BE being a self-contained
entity (on the same hardware, the same box, because of /devices)?
Thanks,
Uwe
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