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rescue mode & partitions



On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:28:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:12:19PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
     <snip/> 
> > Anyway, partman is not used. Instead a list of partitions is shown from 
> > which the user has to select his root partition. Then a shell is started. 
> > Other partitions have to be mounted separately.
> 
> This is a full list of partitions, we don't do probing of content and such ? 

 "rescue mode" == "expect the worse and hope for the best"

I myself consider searching for disk devices and reading partition
tables allready 'tricky' for a programm.
Further automatic probing is even more trickier ...

 anyway

> > a list of partitions is shown from which the user has to select
> > his root partition

 Could

| Device to mount as root file system:
|
|            /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part1
|            /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part2
|            /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part3
|            /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part4
|            /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part5
|            /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part6
|            /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part7

into

| Device to mount as root file system:
|
|       /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part1:32M,Linux
|       /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part2:600M,Linux
|       /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part3:30G,LVM
|       /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part4:10G,extended
|       /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part5:1G,LinuxSwap/Solaris
|       /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part6:2G,Linux
|       /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part7:4G,Linux
|       /dev/discs/disc0/part1/part8:3G,Linux


So that more information from the partitiontable is shown,
such as size and type


Cheers
Geert Stappers

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