In Amazon ec2 they have no console access (though I heard rumors that
it was available I have not seen any sign of it) so I'd like to put a
"recovery partition" into an AMI.
The trick is how to convince it to boot to that instead of the regular
action.
The ideal thing would be if there was
[CCing freebsd-cloud, which is the right place for discussions of FreeBSD/EC2]
On 04/11/17 21:03, Julian Elischer wrote:
> In Amazon ec2 they have no console access (though I heard rumors that it was
> available I have not seen any sign of it) so I'd like to put a "recovery
> partition" into an AM
I keep an extra EBS volume handy that has a simple recovery image. If I get
stuck into a trouble, I change the normal boot disk to sdb, and attach my
recovery volume as sda1. Essentially, the extra volume is my "recovery
partition". To make it cheaper, keep only a snapshot of it.
Same idea on Goog
On 12/4/17 12:34 pm, Colin Percival wrote:
[CCing freebsd-cloud, which is the right place for discussions of FreeBSD/EC2]
On 04/11/17 21:03, Julian Elischer wrote:
In Amazon ec2 they have no console access (though I heard rumors that it was
available I have not seen any sign of it) so I'd like
> On 12. apr 2017, at 9:04, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> On 12/4/17 12:34 pm, Colin Percival wrote:
>> [CCing freebsd-cloud, which is the right place for discussions of
>> FreeBSD/EC2]
>>
>> On 04/11/17 21:03, Julian Elischer wrote:
>>> In Amazon ec2 they have no console access (though I heard r
On 12/4/17 1:30 pm, Leif Pedersen wrote:
I keep an extra EBS volume handy that has a simple recovery image.
If I get stuck into a trouble, I change the normal boot disk to sdb,
and attach my recovery volume as sda1. Essentially, the extra volume
is my "recovery partition". To make it cheaper, k
On 12/4/17 2:09 pm, Toomas Soome wrote:
On 12. apr 2017, at 9:04, Julian Elischer wrote:
On 12/4/17 12:34 pm, Colin Percival wrote:
[CCing freebsd-cloud, which is the right place for discussions of FreeBSD/EC2]
On 04/11/17 21:03, Julian Elischer wrote:
In Amazon ec2 they have no console acce
