Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:57:17 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed Message-ID: <200011101757.eAAHvHn19083@earth.backplane.com> References: <200011101748.KAA22290@usr08.primenet.com>
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: :> :I had a similar experience with FreeBSD, when the kernel.ko :> :stuff went in, and when I accidently trashed /kernel. :> :> Backup kernels are easy. Backup dynamic shared libraries are not. : :The "kernel.ko stuff" includes the modified boot loader crap. : :Backup shared libraries are easy; backup bootblock are not. : : : Terry Lambert : terry@lambert.org Ah, ah... right. Whenever I have more then one SCSI disk I always install bootblocks and a root on both. A friend of mine is even more paranoid... he burns a CD. The machine boots up and runs the CD's bootloader which then loads the kernel off the hard drive. This way if the HD is completely fracked it is possible to interrupt the boot sequence at the CD and then boot a CD kernel instead of an HD kernel. That's a little overboard for my tastes, but I can't argue that it doesn't work :-). -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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