Re: Using a recovery partition to repair a broken installation of FreeBSD

On Mon, Sep 1, 2025, 3:05 AM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

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> Tomoaki AOKI writes:
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> > >  > … it would be nice to have something like 'recovery partition', as
> > > some OSes have. or at least some tiny fail-safe feature. having remote
> > > machine in some distant datacenter, booting from a flashstick is
> always
> > > a problem.
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> I thought that is what /rescue is for ?
>

That only works if your boot loader can read it... I've thought for a
while now that maybe we should move that into a ram disk image that we fall
back to if the boot loader can't read anything else...

Warner


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