Subject: Re: big YAY to current and vmware (fat finger trouble)
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
List: current-users
Date: 10/25/2005 13:33:49
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 07:54:26 +0100
David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:55:35AM +1000, George Michaelson wrote:
> > 
> > do we have room in the /boot code to add a brief one-liner sentence
> > documenting this as a fallback boot path? Something along the lines
> > of:
> > 
> > # use boot -a /rescue/init to fall back on merged-binary recovery
> > tools
> 
> Actually it might make sense for the kernel and/or init to output a
> message like that when it fails to find init/sh.
> 
> 	David

Makes sense to me: its in the thing with space for another string
(rather than the boot code) and its applied close to the point of
pain! :-)

-George