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Subject: Re: New Boot Loader Menu
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On 10/7/12 12:52 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> I'd like to see sketches or a general idea of what you have in mind before investing too much time in a direction that doesn't bear a lot of fruit. I'm sure others here agree.
It'd be interesting to see if we could get a boot loader that has an 
option to boot a backup
image, or maybe off network.. I know that by the time we got this far 
we are supposed to be
beyond that, but who knows what is actually possible.

I'd love to see a picoBSD image available for booting in emergencies. 
Whether in it's own partition,
or just a file in the root partition (or wherever) that can be loaded 
as a root filesystem.
having the ability to recover from really bad screwups is why you need 
the menus in the first place usually.

not sure what is really possible.