After reading a lot of this wiki, I wanted a decent boot configuration.
I wanted a boot menu that gave me
- Normal boot
- Rescue console
- Root console
- Modify system partition (No UnionFS)
- System partition console
- Scan user partition
- Reformat user partition
I also wanted my rescue console to offer
- The ability to mount my USB stick /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/sdb1
- e2fsck - to be able to scan the system partition
- tune2fs - to be able to convert the system partition to ext3
- bzip2 - which I like better than gzip.
- You can back up your system partition with “dd if=/dev/sda1 | bzip2 -9 >
/mnt/sdb1/sda1.img.bz2
To install this boot configuration, you need the following files:
http://home.comcast.net/~unclechromedome/boot/initramfs-eeepc.img
http://home.comcast.net/~unclechromedome/boot/menu.lst
To install these files, you will need to boot a rescue console according to the instructions in
Install/run rescue console on the Eee
Assuming that initramfs-eeepc.img and menu.lst are in /home/user, boot the rescue console and install them as follows:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt-system mount /dev/sda2 /mnt-user cd /mnt-system/boot mv initramfs-eeepc.img initramfs-eeepc.img.orig cd grub mv menu.lst menu.lst.orig cd /mnt-user/home/user cp initramfs-eeepc.img /mnt-system/boot cp menu.lst /mnt-system/boot/grub cd / umount /mnt-system umount /mnt-user
Now press Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot.
If something goes wrong, you can edit the grub menu on the fly to load initramfs-eeepc.img.orig instead of initramfs-eeepc.img. This should boot your original configuration.
