heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby) (01/14/88)
Tom Spuhler (spuhler@hpisoa2.HP.COM) writes: > I don't know what all would need to write to root while single user, > and what would happen if they (?) couldn't, but "what if" (you've seen > the commercial) there were two /etc directores. One would be a minimal > subset on the read only FS and there would be a link from /etc to say, > /letc. If we have a minimal root in ROM (Motorola VME Delta systems boot from tape into a RAM disk) that contains enough to do minor housekeeping, disk formatting, fsck, cpio, etc., why not (when going to init 2 or 3) mount the *entire* real root over it? Effectively, we would re-mount the root, but from the disk device. Most of the time, we might just boot directly from the disk, but a boot option would allow a minimal boot from ROM, maybe with a RAM disk for /tmp. I don't recall how this discussion started, but I suspect that my suggestion may solve a slightly different problem from the original poster's. -- Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix "Intel architectures build character."