Re: rescue disk
Tony Godshall wrote:
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?
=============================================================
--- mkrescue.orig 2004-09-13 14:14:15.000000000 -0500
+++ mkrescue 2004-12-01 09:14:32.000000000 -0600
@@ -427,6 +427,10 @@
echo " " >>$mountconfig
echo "image=linux" >>$mountconfig
+if [ $isoimage = yes ]; then
+ echo "label=$image" >>$mountconfig
+fi
+
if [ ! -z $initrd ]; then
echo " initrd=initrd" >>$mountconfig
fi
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This refers to the current Sarge version of lilo (which contains mkrescue)
I want to make another change: to add all the images of the current
partition. E.g. I have two images of the current partition that differ
only in a string on the append: "network". Then in the boot I look for
that string and if it exists I bring up PPP at boot. If not I don't.
Many times I need a rescue boot (after failures of the d-i) but I don't
want the internet. So both of those images should be on the rescue CD.
I'll advise when I got something.
HTH
H
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