Re: rescue disk

From: George Iordanou (iordanou_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/30/04

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To: Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>, kmark+debian-user@pipeline.com

    Thanks a lot for your help.

    > if you have a bootable disk with chroot, you can run the mkrescue (or
    > maybe mkboot for a bootdisk). I usually use knoppix.
    Unfortunately i haven't exactly understood the procedure. Do i need
    knoppix? I have the installation cd of sarge.

    > 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 am using Grub not Lilo

    > 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").
    What is mkrescue?

    Excuse me, i'm very confused and i'm trying to understand the
    procedure so that i fix the problem. Thanks a lot for your feedback 

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