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From: naftoli@aecom.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: hacking init
Message-ID: <469@aecom.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Apr-84 18:14:32 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  2 18:14:32 1984
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>> I am posting this article to ask "what's your favorite way to hack init"?
>> How does one recover if the new version of init is so damaged that Unix
>> won't even boot? When I work on unix, I can tell boot which file to
>> run, whether it be "unix" or "nunix". But I don't see how to do that
>> easily for init.

The best thing to do is keep a separate root filesystem charged up
for such emergencies.  Then you can boot the alternate root up
with a separate and hopefully undamaged init.
-- 
Robert Berlinger
...{philabs,cucard,pegasus}!aecom!naftoli
"If you're not where you are, you're nowhere"