On Wednesday 10 January 2001 03:23, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 02:34:39AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > 1) This situation does not stop a running machine from working, it will > > only stop it from booting. > > Oh, well, as long as THAT'S all it is...
The thing is that a machine that can't load the correct kernel can be easily fixed, just use another machine to dd a kernel to a floppy. A machine which boots up but which has broken keyboard mapping or broken NSS is much more effort to fix. Also if you have something like NSS break on you then you can logout and then when you realise that you've done the wrong thing it's too late, you're machine is stuffed because you can't login as root again! If your lilo.conf is wrong then you have between now and your next reboot to fix it. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
