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On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:58:03PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>  Daniel Carosone skrev:
> > If your system is this horked, you boot from your altroot partition,
> > or from alternate boot media (a rescue/install/live cd, usb widget,
> > netboot, or whatever's appropriate).
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>  Yes, that's nice, in theory. In practice, it isn't always that easy.
>  My main playing with NetBSD is on systems that have never heard the term=
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>  USB or netboot. Guess where that leaves me?

Using an /altroot.

>  Like a few weeks ago, when I installed a new kernel, then a new userland=
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>  after which, I realized that the new kernel was so broken that I really=
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>  couldn't use it.

Sure, I've done this before (and worse, like installing userland for
the wrong architecture when not paying attention).  I had the previous
root fs in /altroot.  Problem solved as quickly as it was created, and
I could move on. So should you.

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Dan.
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