Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 03:15:50 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com>, FreeBSD-CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Using a recovery partition to repair a broken installation of FreeBSD Message-ID: <CANCZdfrrybisM6gSvsqKHfT2yk6ACXH=g=0oae1iVGBAdwWZQg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <202509010904.58194iP2007318@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <7b384ac0-9b24-43a4-bf63-012d745155a7@gmail.com> <aKD970iOlzyQNi0d@amaryllis.le-fay.org> <18e1a7e9-07d8-43a2-96af-0acdab6c2920@gmail.com> <babf662e-cded-4a2c-b5e8-c5a7175739f2@gmail.com> <20250901175827.73ba0ea24812cebe2263811f@dec.sakura.ne.jp> <202509010904.58194iP2007318@critter.freebsd.dk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Sep 1, 2025, 3:05 AM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > -------- > Tomoaki AOKI writes: > > > > > > … it would be nice to have something like 'recovery partition', as > > > some OSes have. or at least some tiny fail-safe feature. having remote > > > machine in some distant datacenter, booting from a flashstick is > always > > > a problem. > > I thought that is what /rescue is for ? > That only works if your boot loader can read it... I've thought for a while now that maybe we should move that into a ram disk image that we fall back to if the boot loader can't read anything else... Warner > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > [-- Attachment #2 --] <div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 1, 2025, 3:05 AM Poul-Henning Kamp <<a href="mailto:phk@phk.freebsd.dk">phk@phk.freebsd.dk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">--------<br> Tomoaki AOKI writes:<br> <br> <br> > > > … it would be nice to have something like 'recovery partition', as <br> > > some OSes have. or at least some tiny fail-safe feature. having remote <br> > > machine in some distant datacenter, booting from a flashstick is always <br> > > a problem.<br> <br> I thought that is what /rescue is for ?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That only works if your boot loader can read it... I've thought for a while now that maybe we should move that into a ram disk image that we fall back to if the boot loader can't read anything else...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Warner</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br> -- <br> Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20<br> phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956<br> FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe <br> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.<br> <br> </blockquote></div></div></div>home | help
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