On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:34:14 +1000
Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org> wrote:
 
> Instead I added support to the bootloader's "-a" (askroot)
> flag to allow you to override the path to init(8) at boot.
> I've actually used this to recover when I've accidentally
> hosed /sbin/init, /lib/libc.so* or /libexec/ld.elf_so.

aha! so can this be used to get to running state out of /rescue?

(eg have the kernel wait to be told to run /rescue/sh or something)

that probably would have let me get to where I needed to be faster.

-george