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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom
From:       Pascal Cavy <pascal () vmfacility ! fr>
Date:       2003-04-03 11:25:07
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Le Jeudi 3 Avril 2003 12:54, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit :
> Pascal <pascalc6@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> > Le Mercredi 2 Avril 2003 16:35, Guillaume Cottenceau a écrit :
> > > Pascal Cavy <pascal@vmfacility.fr> writes:
> > > > If this is true, then that was my problem on rescue mode. And that is
> > > > why, Guillaume,  an new rescue menu entry to rebuild a kernel initrd
> > > > would be a plus in case someone has destroyed or corrupted it.
> > > > (nothing to do with mdk installation here, just a new recovery tool)
> > >
> > > I don't think the case happens enough for deserving a menu entry
> > > (I already said so, I think).
> >
> > if what you say was true, a menu entry would be necessary for stuff that
> > happen so often that we already know by heart what to type to rescue the
> > situation... and so no menu entry is required   which leads to a
> > contradiction, thus the proposition is not true...... lol

> not exactly. that's the case for "reinstalling bootloader" for
> example. all experts know easily how to do that, but there is a
> menu entry, because the rescue is not only for experts. same
> applies to "reboot".

That's what I wanted to read, at last.
however you still think  rebuilding an initrd is easy for newbies, and would 
not benefit from a new menu entry in rescue, only because it does not happen 
often?     
In fact we disagree on the goal of the rescue disk menu, I think. Personnaly i 
would put in this menu all easy means to recover from well know bad 
situations (especially for newbies):
- corrupted boot sector
- corrupted initrd
- lost root passwd
- FS checks
- restore a linux system from a backup ( oops you dont have this tool)
- and last console mode for experts for all other difficult cases.

that's my view of a good rescue tool from my experience on ibm Aix...

I guess our disagrement comes from very different point of view of rescue.

-- 
Pascal Cavy - VMF
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