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| author | Nikos Giotis <nikos.giotis@gmail.com> | 2015-08-23 14:03:41 +0700 |
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| committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2015-08-23 14:03:41 +0700 |
| commit | a26c4f7d6e61cb4acdcc8bf1ff1c027fd9085110 (patch) | |
| tree | e14a1acfafce81ceb68b7586fe96adb89cb40f55 /system/maintboot/README | |
| parent | eb3044d1466877101f6060a09dc0345b2d4bae2c (diff) | |
system/maintboot: Added (runs commands outside of the current OS).
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'system/maintboot/README')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/system/maintboot/README b/system/maintboot/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..c7a6277877dbd --- /dev/null +++ b/system/maintboot/README @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# maintboot + +maintboot runs commands outside of the current OS, +with exclusive access to the system and hardware. + +This can be useful to run maintenance tasks, +like repartitioning, in a controlled environment. + +Maintboot builds an appliance on the fly from a list +of packages (using supermin). +It then loads the appliance with kexec, bypassing +the bios, and runs the maintenance script in that +new context. |