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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] rebuild an initrd under rescue cdrom
From:       Guillaume Cottenceau <gc () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2003-04-03 13:44:08
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Pascal Cavy <pascal@vmfacility.fr> writes:

> > 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?

?? Re-read me. I don't pretend that "not often" implies "easy".

> 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 

**well known**, exactly.

> situations (especially for newbies):
> - corrupted boot sector

agreed.

> - corrupted initrd

disagreed.

> - lost root passwd

"linux 1" or "linux single" is just as easy (it needs to be
known, but the manual and online docs is here for that).

> - FS checks

done at boot.

> - 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.


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