Messages in this thread | | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: init bug / crash recovery | Date | Fri, 15 Mar 1996 10:23:30 +0000 (GMT) |
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> Any other Unix I've worked with provides some way to recover from disk > corruption other than reinstalling the entire system from the > installation medium. I do not see any reason why Linux should be an > exception.
It isn't. Slackware has one.
> The last one, not the least one,if there is a reason why > telinit [0123456sS] should not be used, at least under X, it should > be reflected in the documentation in a very explicit way. I guess > something like : > > "WARNING : YOU CAN MESS UP YOUR COMPUTER BY USING THIS COMMAND"
It can't. More likely you had a disk fault, a corruption or using a buggy beta linux kernel. As to not having a rescue disk, well you should have made one or got the slackware one.
Alan
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