Re: Rescue mode

["Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>]

>> In rescue mode it ignores non-critical conf. files (autoexec) at
>> boot and at run time and non-critical drivers (recognized by
>> flags in header). This way is also a kernel issue.
>
> Really? Is it not easier to omit these things from the alternate kernel
> image and startup scripts than to give the kernel a database of drivers
> it must not load and initscripts it should refuse to run in the event of a
> given flag being set?

This isn't a bad idea. Driver initialization code without a reliable
hardware probe (any ISA device) could check a safe-boot flag.

The rest of his ideas would require a decent boot loader, which we
don't have. We won't have a decent boot loader without the ability
to write the code in C, and we might need more space at the beginning
of an ext2 filesystem.

Hey, that's another kernel issue: more space at the beginning of an
ext2 filesystem. I'd say 96 kB would be good.


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