On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 03:38:44AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:14 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Does anyone know if it's possible to have that happen with CentOS? It would be nice to have it boot that way, so that if you checked, and figured it should have been up already, you could handle the problem without coming in....
marksshd can't come up before the fsck ... fsck is done on unmounted file systems. On the old Sun machines (and the new ones for that matter) there was a remote console (exactly what Brian mentions) that you had access to where you started the OS. This Console allow you to see things before sshd was turned on via the machine, but it was also on a separate IP address from the machine.
Same with DRAC. It's useful, for example, if one is trying to do something like team NICs, and a mistype makes the machine's main IP address unreachable. As Johnny says, it's a separate IP address.