On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:36 AM, C Anthony Risinger <anth...@xtfx.me> wrote: <snip> > what if we (optionally) stored the original images _inside_ the new > one? the new/bad kernel would boot, and via some bootloader entry eg. > kernel param the new initcpio script would kexec the old kernel, with > another (different) kernel param ... when the old kernel booted it > would load the exact same initramfs image, except it would use an > alternate tree, ie. instead of /init it would chroot to /previous and > run /previous/init ... >
eh, for the priority of known sources of error: an UPDATE image could contain the NEW kernel in an alternate tree /new/init, because the OLD kernel is KNOWN to boot that far... Anything else would be insane.
