On Wed 29 Apr 2020 at 14:24:17 -0400, Mouse wrote: > It occurred to me that in principle it should be possible to work > around this in the booter, that the booter on the internal SSD could > check for the thumbdrive and, if found, chain-boot it. But I don't > know how easy that would be to do with the 8.0 booter. > > Thoughts? Alternatives? Alternatively, you can shift this check to userland. In one of the rc files, check for the thumbdrive, and if present, chroot into it and do the update. Maybe using the init.root sysctl node (see init(8)). I don't see a way for this method to use a different kernel from the thumbdrive, though. > /~\ The ASCII Mouse -Olaf. -- Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- rhialto at falu dot nl ___ Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on \X/ no account be allowed to do the job. --Douglas Adams, "THGTTG"
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