On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:01:32 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Read my other mail and pay attention to the difference between > > transient and persistent. > > In my proposed solution, the executables in /sbin would only exist until > /usr had been mounted and the runtime PATH set up. After the > unification of /usr, /sbin won't even exist (apart from in schemes like > mine).
What happens to files that are installed to /bin, /sbin or /lib by default? Where do kernel modules go? > I look forward with foreboding to the time when such recovery will not > be possible. Only a legacy Gentoo system or a recovery CD will help > then. I think it highly probable that "can't boot" bugs will continue > to happen occasionally. I'd like to carry on having a bootable > skeleton system for when this happens. When an initramfs fails to boot, it drops you to a busybox shell, although I also have a SystemRescueCD ISO in /boot for such situations. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 12: Plastic glasses
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