> I keep a IPLable tape of the installation Linux system around as a > emergency rescue system. If there's a problem like this, you can IPL > the tape and get the Linux environment up to the point where you can > make changes like this and then reboot to the real system. Of course, > the implication is that your rescue system is the same version as the > system being recovered (there is a difference in behavior in > silo/zilo/zipl, and it needs to match your setup). You also have to do > one system at a time -- the tape obviously can't be shared while it's in > use.
Let me plug the Redbook again... the ISP/ASP redbook shows how to put the kernel and ramdisk on one of your disks to use that as the rescue system.
