Frans Pop wrote: > The manual still describes the use of a rescue floppy in case the first reboot > fails. > > What options does a user have with d-i if the first reboot should fail? > Can the boot media (floppy or CD) be used for rescue (if yes, how)?
d-i can be used to some degree as a rescue system, if you back out from the partitioner and run a shell, you can mount any kind of fileystem, chroot into it and do stuff. It's not really designed as a rescue system though. > I have tried 'linux root=/dev/hd..' and 'linux root=/dev/discs/disc../part..' > from CD and floppy but both failed (as I somewhat expected). The problem here is that the i386 kernel uses an initrd, which is only on the hard drive. Isolinux can't load it from there. -- see shy jo
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