Re: Updating the root partition

Christopher Fowler
2002-06-19T23:50:22Z

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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