Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday 21 December 2011 02:06:21 Joachim Schrod wrote:
From current experience of my staff: that is not sufficient. If we want boot-problem-resolving tools to be available, we have to put them in initrd. That's the only way to be sure they will be available if GRUB/lilo succeeds booting.
Which tools do you mean? Given that /bin and /sbin will be unavailable only when the root partition fails to mount, what tools do you put into the initrd to resolve that? Aside from fsck perhaps, but that is already in there
My colleague botched his md set up. (He wanted to split his raid; marked one side as failed and removed it, but forgot to --zero-superblock it.) We weren't able to mount one half of mirrored root directly, nor could we establish the mirror again. I have to admit I didn't try long, but told him to take an installation DVD and boot a rescue system where all necessary tools were available. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org