The Debian Package grml-rescueboot
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+==================================
-Usually systems are rescued with CD or usb stick. grml-rescueboot makes
-it possible to simply copy an ISO image to the harddisk and boot the
-rescue image. This eliminates the need to carry around a usb stick
-to rescue a system.
+Usually systems are rescued with CD or USB stick. grml-rescueboot makes
+it possible to simply copy an Grml ISO image to the harddisk and boot the
+rescue image. This eliminates the need to carry around a USB stick
+to rescue a system as long as the hard disk and the boot manager still
+work.
grml-rescueboot includes the script 42_grml which is installed in
/etc/grub.d and run when update-grub is executed. The script looks for
ISO images in /boot/grml/ and adds an entry for each image found.
-Howto:
-------
+Howto
+-----
- Get a recent Grml image from http://grml.org/download/
- Copy the image to /boot/grml
- Run update-grub
- Reboot and enjoy your new rescue system
-Limitations:
-------------
+Limitations
+-----------
-grml-rescueboot uses the loopback feature of grub2, so it won't work
-with legacy grub. Furthermore the ISO image needs to support
+grml-rescueboot uses the loopback feature of GRUB2, so it won't work
+with legacy GRUB. Furthermore the ISO image needs to support
loopback.cfg, a file which is placed in /boot/grub/. Grml supports
loopback.cfg beginning with release version 2010.04.
-More technical details can be found here:
+More technical details can be found here:
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/Loopback.cfg
- -- Andreas "Jimmy" Gredler <jimmy@grml.org> Sat, 06 Nov 2010 12:28:45 +0100
+Create your own ISO
+-------------------
+
+You can make your own Grml Live ISO image using the grml-live
+build framework. Visit http://grml.org/grml-live/ and
+http://grml.org/ for more information.
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