How to configure FreeBSD for rebooting when kernel panic

[Andrew McNaughton]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:

> Andrew McNaughton wrote:
>> You can't unmount your root file system.
>
>> Because of this it's possibly a good idea to have as minimal a root 
>> partition system as possible, off the raid system, and very rarely changed, 
>> so it's unlikely to get screwed up.
>
> Yes, i know. Root FS, and othser system FS's is on the other disk. RAID 
> stripe have only public data.

You want a system where if the mounts (other than the root fs) fail, the 
system will still be adminsterable.  To maintain remote access, you'd need 
to make sure that all your basic login tools are on the root disk.  eg 
sshd, root's default shell, etc.

Should be doable, but would be nice if it didn't involve as much custom 
tinkering as I expect it would.

Andrew




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