On 9/10/07, David Nicol davidnicol@gmail.com wrote:
So what happens when there is a problem with the fallback-to-crawl system?
I believe there appears in recent kernels a system for loading a different kernel, so you might be able to rig something to switch to your known-good instead of requiring you to reboot again, if you are in a panic/recompile/repeat cycle, but setting that up would certainly harder be than the problem at hand fixing.
So far- some good starting points and thanks!
The direction I hope we could use as a "target" is one I can best describe as - "Load a stable minimal live assist with communication-THEN begin the install or whatever-save the Oh, let's call it ID for InitialDegubber to a USB device bootable if possible- then any later event causing a Something Bad has a way to cry for more skilled help" Shorter statement is - something akin to a netboot yet only invoked upon a drastic failure. The teaser is a searchable "BreakFix" repository that such an ID could query as "self remedy" with the dividend of FEEDBACK to learn hardware compatibilities etc.
Oh, think of it this way as a closer- " do you always feed back false driver detects"?
Oren Beck