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

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:00:26PM +0100, Alex Owen wrote:
> 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.

Another nice feature would be a easy way to rerun just the boot loader
installation, for dual-boot cases, where some other os decided to wipe the
boot loader.

Friendly,

Sven Luther