[ale] Forcing RW on boot

[meuon at geeklabs.com (Mike Harrison)]

> 1.  A reboot command that follows instructions
> 2.  A busybox binary with no symlinks and is statically linked that I
> can use in emergency
> 3.  CentOS rescue CD in grub so I can boot alternative.
> 4.  CentOS load CD in grub so I can reload.

Great ideas.

I'll add this one:

In a recent remote install we noticed the motherboard had 2 USB slots 
INSIDE the case. An idea popped into mind:

On my last trip to it, I stuck a couple of flash drives in them (16gb 
each). The first one has clonezilla and a clonezilla image of the original 
system, the second gets a daily copy of all the code changes and a 
database dump of the critical tables (some aren't). Other backups
are made across the network as well.

In a test with the NOC guy doing a re-install on bare metal,
he was back up in under 10 minutes.

It's now S.O.P. :)