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Re: Small tip proposal for headless systems boot resiliency



> >>* The point is : with a headless system you want it back online,
...
> It is certainly much better to have the predictable known behavior
> of "no machine" than to have a machine whose behaviour is unkown and
> unknowable.

It seems to me that perhaps a better solution would be to stop booting
and configure a network interface and start an sshd. Now, sometimes
configuring a network interface is hard, but for those of us for whom
it isn't, this seems a path forward.

--jhawk%mit.edu@localhost
  John Hawkinson

p.s.: Can we drop tech-embed?


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