On Sat, 25 May 2013 21:52:28 -0400 "Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 01:57:39PM +0200, Tom Wijsman wrote > It has to be done *VERY* early at boot, or else we're back to the > problem you described above. Not sure what you mean with very early, you don't really have control over this anyway; the earliest point at which you can reliably do this is to turning init itself into a wrapper. > It's almost like a brain surgeon operating on himself. That's if externally you turn it into a symlink, not with a wrapper. > 1) boot into single mode before doing the changeover. Both grub and > lilo support single mode boot as per... > http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Booting_into_single_user_mode And EFI? This sounds a bit of an overkill. What's wrong with a wrapper? > 2) have the setup/switchover mechanism built into the Gentoo minimal > install ISO. The advantage here is that if the system ends up no > longer bootable off the harddrive, you can still boot from the ISO, > chroot into the system on the harddrive, and send emails to the > gentoo-user list asking for help <G>. Users can already use eselect in their chroot. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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