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What can I say, I didn't want to wait on my provider lol (lemmy.world)
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It was also actually pretty fun!

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[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 50 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Impressive, sounds like magic, tbh! You know any tutorials?

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 86 points 3 months ago

Not really, I pulled it together from a bunch of random posts lol

Maybe I should write one, but in essence you:

  • Stop all non-OS essential services

  • Create a filesystem in a chunk of RAM

  • Pull essential OS files from the installed OS into it recreating needed directories (Though you could probably just use a tiny pre-built distro but meh)

  • Pivot root into it

  • Reload services (when they restart they'll be restarted in the context of where you pivot rooted, prior they're still running under the context of the installed OS)

  • Unmount the boot drive

  • Then do what ever you need to do

  • ???

  • Profit

[-] exu@feditown.com 24 points 3 months ago

How exactly so you pivot root? Simply chroot or something more involved?

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 73 points 3 months ago

chroot isn't enough, you need "real" pivot_root

chroot just changes the shells root point, pivot_root actually changes the root mount point and enables this trick to work

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 27 points 3 months ago

This is god-tier technique, kudos

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

Holy fuck

[-] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 15 points 3 months ago

I work in this field and I think this is 🔥 af

[-] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

FYI you can use kexec and a prepared initrd to do something similar with only one command.

[-] Wilzax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Imagining this process, despite having never done 50% of the steps on the list, makes my brain imagine this: Turning a sphere outside in

[-] A_cook_not_a_chef@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I'd love to see a write up on this to follow.Sounds like useful practice in the lab if nothing else.

[-] smb@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

i experimented with this some time ago, see my post here: https://lemmy.ml/post/18706002/12772832

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