Re: Avoid reboot by loading initramfs again

2014-10-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/10/14 23:52, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Oct 20, 2014 8:13 AM, "Jimmy Thrasibule" > wrote: >> >> DM> I think it depends on what you're trying to achieve and what > you're >> DM> trying to avoid. >> >> Well my first idea was to have a kind of management

Re: Avoid reboot by loading initramfs again

2014-10-20 Thread Jimmy Thrasibule
GD> Have you considered statically linking the kernel to all the required GD> modules and disabling hardware detection? Yes I do. And this is the kind of kernel I use for my servers but this will not help for what I'm looking to achieve here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: Avoid reboot by loading initramfs again

2014-10-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/10/14 09:36 AM, Jimmy Thrasibule wrote: SW> See Qubes SW> SW> Its what Amazon uses for AWS. Its based on Fedora but idk of a Debian based SW> distro with a similar focus My use case is more for a server environment so this is not what I'm looking for here. I really mean managing the machin

Re: Avoid reboot by loading initramfs again

2014-10-20 Thread shawn wilson
On Oct 20, 2014 8:13 AM, "Jimmy Thrasibule" wrote: > > DM> I think it depends on what you're trying to achieve and what you're > DM> trying to avoid. > > Well my first idea was to have a kind of management OS that I can load > in memory to do some stuff like disk partitioning, fsck, etc... >

Re: Avoid reboot by loading initramfs again

2014-10-20 Thread Jimmy Thrasibule
SW> See Qubes SW> SW> Its what Amazon uses for AWS. Its based on Fedora but idk of a Debian based SW> distro with a similar focus My use case is more for a server environment so this is not what I'm looking for here. I really mean managing the machine from a memory image without a livecd or anythi

Re: Avoid reboot by loading initramfs again

2014-10-20 Thread Jimmy Thrasibule
DM> I think it depends on what you're trying to achieve and what you're DM> trying to avoid. Well my first idea was to have a kind of management OS that I can load in memory to do some stuff like disk partitioning, fsck, etc... For example one idea I have in mind is BTRFS snapshots. I can ta

Re: Avoid reboot by loading initramfs again

2014-10-20 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:13:38AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > The other alternative, for a "lighter" reboot is to drop to runlevel 1 > (or single-user.target, in systemd's parlance). This will stop all the > mutli-user services (X, httpd, sshd and so on) and bring you to a point > wher

Re: Avoid reboot by loading initramfs again

2014-10-20 Thread Joe
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:13:38 +0100 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:36:23PM +0200, Jimmy Thrasibule wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I wonder if one can avoid a complete reboot of the system just by > > halting the operating system but right after load the initramfs and > > restart from

Re: Avoid reboot by loading initramfs again

2014-10-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:36:23PM +0200, Jimmy Thrasibule wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder if one can avoid a complete reboot of the system just by > halting the operating system but right after load the initramfs and > restart from there? I don't think you can quite do what you're thinking, but the