Avoid reboot by loading initramfs again

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? Basically when we reboot, we only want to reset the operating system state but rarely to do all the hardware checks again. And for a ker

Re: Avoid reboot by loading initramfs again

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

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

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

Email management workflow

Hello, I have a bunch of email accounts that I connect to using the POP3 protocol and Thunderbird. This is mainly done to keep the different servers clean of emails and also to keep a backup of all my emails on my workstation. Of course, all the emails within my workstation are also backed up regu

Virtualized desktop

Hi, I'm looking to renew my hardware and I'm wondering how Debian can help me to virtualize my desktop environment. My first go was to have 2 Intel NUC and 2 screens, one NUC more stable and one I can play with. I want to use both screens with both computers so this implies to also have two KVMs.

Re: Virtualized desktop

> You may be interested in . Yes Qubes is approaching what I'm looking for. The more I think about it and the more what I'm looking for is actually a virtual machine manager. I see it like a windows manager. Your computer boots and load this virtual machine manager as it wil

init spawning multiple cf-execd processes at once

Hi, I've added a new line to the /etc/inittab file to monitor the CFEngine daemon and restart it in case this one dies. cfe:2345:respawn:/var/cfengine/bin/cf-execd The cf-execd is re-spawned as expected, except the fact that multiple processes are created at once. I therefore have about 20+

PXE, automatic installation and reboot

Hi, I've setup and environment to automatically install some Debian boxes via the network using PXE, TFTP and Preseed. If this part is working fine, I'm facing a little issue when the installation is done. I'm trying to make everything automatic with no human intervention. The problem is that whe

Re: PXE, automatic installation and reboot

Hi, I finally opted for some iptables rules: -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m recent --name tftp --update --reap --seconds 5 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m conntrack -m set --match-set tftp_hosts src -p udp --dport 69 --ctstate NEW -j REJECT -A INPUT -m conntrack

Git and Quilt

Hello, I have a core project on which I maintain a set of patches using Quilt. This allows me to make changes to the project without touching the files so I can upgrade to new versions easily. I keep my patches and the core project in a Git repository. When I want to change something, I apply my

Re: Git and Quilt

On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 16:12 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Monday 09 July 2012 15:26:50 Jimmy Thrasibule wrote: > > I have a core project on which I maintain a set of patches using Quilt. > > This allows me to make changes to the project without touching the files > > so

Apache, mod_rewrite and directory context

Hi, I'm trying to pass everything that is not a file to `index.php` as a request parameter without using a `.htaccess` file. A request to http://www.example.com/test must be rewritten to http://www.example.com/index.php?q=/test. I'm using Debian Squeeze (6.0) and Apache 2.2.16. Here is my config