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Re:Takeover.sh – Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system v... by exDM69 on Saturday February 11, 2017 @11:15AM (#13623197)
This only works if you stick to a simple filesystem, not crypto, RAID, etc. Otherwise you'll need to have file system utilities (lvm2, mdadm, cryptsetup, zfsprogrs, etc) on the initrd to get your rootfs mounted.
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Re:Takeover.sh – Wipe and reinstall a running Linux system v... by LookASquirrel on Saturday February 11, 2017 @01:22PM (#13623883)
Damn, you are absolutely right!

It never crossed my mind that LVM and similar needs utilities to access the filesystem and to be honest, I thought initrd/initramfs contained only kernel modules, not executables and scripts... ^__^;

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