Bug#270550: Using d-i as rescue disk.

[Alex Owen <owen@cus.org.uk>]

In boot-floppies (bf) the bf kernel was installed in the target system. Is
that the case in d-i ?

I seem to remember d-i asking me which kernel to install so I suspect this
means that the d-i kernel is not installed on the target system.

If the d-i kernel ins not installed on the target system then I think that
the d-i boot floppy cannot have the "rescue" boot option that bf had as
there will be no matching kernel modules in the root filesystem.

The d-i can still be used as a rescue system by booting into expert mode
and then dropping to a shell to mount and fix your damaged system. Perhaps
a rescue mode could be added to d-i which loads up the ramdisk prompts
for language and keyboard info then drops to a root shell. This would be a
different kind of rescue mode to the old bf rescue mode.

If I have got this wrong and we just need to add a rescue stanza to
syslinux.cfg (and simmilar for other arches) then do let me know and I'll
try to prepare a patch some time next week.

Alex Owen