Bug#457044: test booting ability without actually booting
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:49:21AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:03:33AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:08:53AM +0100, tech@mediaforest.net wrote:
>> > Is there a way to test or check the boot process without actually
>> > booting ?
>> > Because rebooting a remotely hosted server without any garanty that
>> > it will be able to start, is a bit like russian roulet... one time
>> > it reboots one time it doesn't and if it doesn't nothing else can
>> > be done except starting the box with a floppy or a live cd to try
>> > to find the problem's cause which is rather difficult on a distant
>> > machine.
>>
>> I don't think so.
>>
>> But you can have a look at the alternative ramdisk-generator yaird.
>yaird breaks on every upgrade and has several troubles.
Wrong.
But feel free to play russian roulette with Max. He maintains
initramfs-tools in "friendly" competition with the "completely unusable"
yaird that I maintain :-)
- Jonas
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