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From: Christopher Fowler <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com>
To: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@asu.edu>
Cc: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
	"Chris AtLee" <catlee@canada.com>,
	"Linux MTD" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Updating the root partition
Date: 19 Jun 2002 19:56:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1024531003.13219.15.camel@devel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1024529392.1205.9.camel@timmy>

In a way.  On my system you have to restart to run on the new software. 
I have implemented a pseudo single user mode in init that will umount
the rootfs and then dump the new software into memory.  Ths keeps you
from having to do a restart.  However, this is not possible from remote
locations.  You must be on serial console to do this.  That is why
single user mode is not acceptable.

Chris

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 19:29, Russ Dill wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 16:22, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > Going into a pseudo single user mode to flash is not acceptable.  You
> > need to be able to flash from any tty.  From any web interface.  From
> > any command.  My unit will flash with a simple flash command while the
> > system is running.
> 
> right, you have a program that accepts a flash image, authenicates it,
> and copies it to a flash partition, once this is done, *then* you signal
> init.
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-19 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-19 15:18 Updating the root partition Chris AtLee
2002-06-19 22:23 ` Jörn Engel
2002-06-19 22:44   ` Russ Dill
2002-06-19 23:22     ` Christopher Fowler
2002-06-19 23:29       ` Russ Dill
2002-06-19 23:56         ` Christopher Fowler [this message]
2002-06-20  1:43           ` Russ Dill
2002-06-20 10:13             ` Stefan Thomasson
2002-06-20 11:47               ` cfowler

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