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Re: rescue disk



According to Hugo Vanwoerkom,
> George Iordanou wrote:
> >I want to create a rescue disk. I went to debian's official webpage
> >and i downloaded the unstable version which consists of the following
> >files:
> >
> >boot.img
> >cd-drivers.img
> >net-drivers.img
> >root.img
> >
> >How can i create a bootable rescue disk? I want to get into my system
> >using the floppy's kernel.
> >
> 
> Is a bootable rescue CD OK? mkrescue is part of Lilo and creates either 
> floppies or CD with "mkrescue --iso", which iso your burn with cdrecord.
> 
> I modified mkrescue --iso, which is a script, to come up with a menu 
> that actually says which partition is going to boot, rather than "Linux".
> 
> Booting that CD gives you the option of using the partition you ran 
> mkrescue from or what is on the MBR ("harddisk").

Sounds handy.

Can you post a patch?



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