On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:33:20AM -0500, Bari Ari wrote:
> Has anyone worked on a way that if LinuxBIOS boots from Flash or DOC and
> when it jumps to the Linux kernel on the main hard drive and the main
> hard drive kernel/data is corrupted or just plain dead the LinuxBIOS
> would be able to jump to a secondary hard drive, flash drive or CDROM in
> the system with a backup kernel so that the system will still run?
A couple ideas:
1. keep a copy of the original BIOS somewhere and run it to boot a floppy
or hard drive or cdrom and recover.
2. always load a small initrd with contents similar to tomsrtbt that will
allow user intervention to fix the system.
