-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > A much better approach would be for there to be a rescue build, > completely independent of the stages, since it doesn't need to mirror > them in any way. It should be extracted (self-extracted?) to something > like /rescue and executed from there, being completely self-contained. > This keeps it from stomping on system files and breaking > collision-protect or doing anything else nasty like hosing configuration > files (ever made the mistake of extracting a stage onto a live > filesystem?) when unpacked.
This sounds a lot like saying, use an initrd, but when you pivot roots to the live filesystem, leave it mounted somewhere. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCiirqXVaO67S1rtsRAgHyAJ49adhPpYhwHqUeFNMw4I6h+GUyDwCfbwMB rgA0GKbYsBjd8K9I7X2pyE8= =tZSe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
