wrstuden@netbsd.org (Bill Studenmund) writes:

>We could have the kernel try /recovery/init at that point, but how does
>the kernel know if we're in a, "libc is messed up, try recovery" mode, or
>a, "we're doomed, panic until someone comes to help" mode?

Why not make this a user input when booting a kernel with ask option ?
Any kind of automatic behaviour will surely search the wrong binary
at the wrong time.

You could then also use this feature to bootstrap a statically linked
stand-alone recovery program instead of init. I prefer an altroot
partition or NFS-mounted root with a sane system for recovery,
but that's a different story.

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