OK, I hosed my system tonight, but got it back. I have two identical hard
drives, and every night I copy one to the other with a cron job. I tried
to compile a module tonight (reiserfs.o), and wound up with a system that
stopped its boot early, complaining about an unrecognized symbol in some
module (I forget which one). I recovered it by copying the entire
/lib/modules/2.4.22 hierarchy from the backup to the original. Yay, the
backup proved its worth. Now, if I hadn't rebooted (and uncovered the
error) and the backup was remade with the faulty module, I'd have been
screwed.
What is the "correct" (i.e., nondestructive) way of recovering from such a
situation? Reinstalling the distribution would be destructive, as there
are copious files I've changed.
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