From: Dominik Kubla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What about systems without floppy disks? They do exist!
Put root.bin from the rescue disk under /boot. Add a "rescue" option to the lilo.conf that boots your regular kernel with INITFS=/boot/root.bin . You can now type "rescue" at the LILO prompt and boot into the rescue disk without a floppy. Total cost in disk space: 700K. This is less than static-linking all of the necessary programs. I count at least 10 of them. It's also superior because it doesn't depend on the damaged filesystem while repairing it. It's such a good idea maybe we should do it for all systems. It would help people who didn't have their rescue floppies on hand. It would take a package containing root.bin and a change to the LILO postinst to generate the rescue configuration if /boot/root.bin is present. > So Mr. President could you please let people do _THEIR_ work without > constantly interfering? I would appreciate that. Note that I am the author of the boot-floppies package and the architect of booting in Debian 1.1 and 1.2 . I also have a mandate as project leader that does not say I should always be hands-off. Please get off this "constantly interfering" thing. It isn't constructive. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3