-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:49:21AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: >On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:03:33AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:08:53AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Is there a way to test or check the boot process without actually >> > booting ? >> > Because rebooting a remotely hosted server without any garanty that >> > it will be able to start, is a bit like russian roulet... one time >> > it reboots one time it doesn't and if it doesn't nothing else can >> > be done except starting the box with a floppy or a live cd to try >> > to find the problem's cause which is rather difficult on a distant >> > machine. >> >> I don't think so. >> >> But you can have a look at the alternative ramdisk-generator yaird.
>yaird breaks on every upgrade and has several troubles. Wrong. But feel free to play russian roulette with Max. He maintains initramfs-tools in "friendly" competition with the "completely unusable" yaird that I maintain :-) - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHusDrn7DbMsAkQLgRAt0YAKCQO0CQFbfSi5PYkDTEQvG3c+ULbACcCEgX 99bqpCPyOwYnhIcWSiUW2xY= =Knqy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----