[coyotos-dev] coyotos.sleep, sleepTill, the epoch

[Valerio Bellizzomi]

On 15/02/2007, at 6.41, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

>On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 01:30 +0100, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
>
>> It occurred to me that the first boot can *fail*. The reasons could be
a
>> syntax error or bad system specification in the mkimage input file.
>> When this occurs, it is very useful to have such record for reference
in
>> debugging of mkimage input file, and test report writing.
>
>If this occurs, you won't be able to get the identifier out, because you
>won't be abel to boot the machine at all.

I would take the hard disk out of the machine and mount it as a secondary
on another machine for analysis.
If the record is in a known disk location, it wouldn't be all that hard to
read it.

>
>The issue won't be syntax errors in the mkimage input. The issue will be
>a mis-arranged initial system image.

Yes. A 'mis-arranged initial system image' is what I meant with 'bad
system specification'.
Does mkimage check for syntax errors ?


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