teh fear

Archive for the 'boot' Category

02 Sep

reboot=bios

nuff said

13 Oct

is grub complicated?

Everytime I need to change something on a co-located server (ours are only about 2 miles from the main office, but it is still a pain if one has to go to the site because a server is not booting up) that requires restarting in a new configuration, I’m always worried that something might not [...]

08 Oct

initrd

A file, key to the successful boot of many a linux system is the initrd image. It used to be a simple gzipped loop filesystem, unpacked and mounted by commands similar to gzip -dc initrd.img > initrd_unzipped.img mount -o loop initrd_unzipped.img temp_dir Then files can be tweaked inside ‘temp_dir’, the image is then updated by [...]

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