Just wrote a script for automatic installation of Gentoo install/admin "CD" on an USB flash stick, utilizing all the available space and compatible with both BIOS and UEFI systems: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/Gu ... stallation
Would be happy with your testing and feedback.
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Nice and easy to read. One comment, though. Please add to "Verify the Loopback device support option in the kernel configuration has been enabled" The actual kernel CONFIG_ name. Menuconfig's layout changes over time and wiki articles last for many years. it is frustrating to be presented with a nice description of kernel options to select only to find that the layout is now completely rearranged and the English prompts are now different. The CONFIG_ name usually stays the same and the kernel can be checked by various means and the menuconfig backslash search command can be used to jump to the current location.
Well written and readable!
Well written and readable!
Re: Customrescuecd
I downloaded this iso and put it on a usb stick running ventoy but it doesn't fully boot. It starts to boot them drops to a shell with a "CRC not found" message (which is very difficult to read with light red text on a grey background). I have the sysrecuecd 5.3.2 iso on the same stick and it boots fine as does an artix (non-systemd arch linux) iso. Any ideas why this wouldn't work with ventoy? And do you have a list of the differences between this image and sysrescuecd 5.3.2? It's much larger so I assume it contains more packages but is there a list somewhere?custom82 wrote:a system rescue cd now based on gentoo!
Fuck Arch Linux!
Gentoo Power!
https://sourceforge.net/projects/customrescuecd/files/
Hi L29 - thanks for doing this, I got a bootable usb stick for my desktop machine from it with no probs, I even managed to modify it to automatically select a uk keyboard and connect to wireless. My desktop is a relatively modern UEFI, gpt-speaking machine.L29Ah wrote:Just wrote a script for automatic installation of Gentoo install/admin "CD" on an USB flash stick, utilizing all the available space and compatible with both BIOS and UEFI systems: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/Gu ... stallation
Would be happy with your testing and feedback.
Haven't succeeded with one for my home server, which is an old machine that doesn't understand GPT disks (32-bit Atom processor, so also slooooooow). Syslinux starts off fine, says it is going to boot from the local disk in 15 seconds, but they says that it can't find a bootable disk and hangs.
I am going to try making a syslinux-only one manually using the one your script produced as a template.
ETA I was using the X86 Admin CD image and created it on the server itself, so it should all be 32-bit where needed.
I was using SeaBIOS with qemu to test BIOS boot, as it's the only BIOS "system" i have to test on. If you can manage to get it working on your BIOS, on SeaBIOS (default qemu invocation) and on UEFI (to test with qemu, emerge sys-firmware/edk2-ovmf and add `-bios /usr/share/edk2-ovmf/OVMF_CODE.fd` to the invocation) at the same time, it would be awesome.greyspoke wrote:Hi L29 - thanks for doing this, I got a bootable usb stick for my desktop machine from it with no probs, I even managed to modify it to automatically select a uk keyboard and connect to wireless. My desktop is a relatively modern UEFI, gpt-speaking machine.L29Ah wrote:Just wrote a script for automatic installation of Gentoo install/admin "CD" on an USB flash stick, utilizing all the available space and compatible with both BIOS and UEFI systems: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/Gu ... stallation
Would be happy with your testing and feedback.
Haven't succeeded with one for my home server, which is an old machine that doesn't understand GPT disks (32-bit Atom processor, so also slooooooow). Syslinux starts off fine, says it is going to boot from the local disk in 15 seconds, but they says that it can't find a bootable disk and hangs.
I am going to try making a syslinux-only one manually using the one your script produced as a template.
ETA I was using the X86 Admin CD image and created it on the server itself, so it should all be 32-bit where needed.
Well I have sorted the immediate issue L89 - it is in fact two issues, neither of which are down to your script but rather to the idiosyncracies of my BIOS.
Firstly the syslinux.cfg has and The syslinux documentation warns that localboot does not work on all BIOSes - and mine is one of them. (This ought to result in "a different local boot method" if nothing it selected after the timeout.) I am not sure how useful a default this is tbh, presumably if you have plugged in a bootable disk and rebooted, it is because you want to boot from that disk and not in the usual way. But that comes from the syslinux.cfg on the .iso file, not your script.
Secondly, my usb keyboard was not being recognised, although both the BIOS stage and gentoo when it booted from the usb stick did recognise it.
The combination left me staring at a screen saying "press any key or..." in some frustration!
Commenting out the ontimeout setting in syslinux.cfg got the thing to boot after the timeout period and plugging in a PS/2 keyboard meant I could select a kernel to boot. I have now discovered that on some old BIOSes it is necessary to set "Enable legacy USB support" otherwise USB keyboards are not recognised during the boot process (ie after the BIOS has handed over to something else presumably, as it is recognised when fiddling with the BIOS settings). Of course my BIOS is one of these as well. There is an upgrade available (dated 2008...), I may give it a go.
So your script worked fine, but my cranky old server needed some tweaking.
Firstly the syslinux.cfg has
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label localhost
localboot -1
MENU HIDESecondly, my usb keyboard was not being recognised, although both the BIOS stage and gentoo when it booted from the usb stick did recognise it.
The combination left me staring at a screen saying "press any key or..." in some frustration!
Commenting out the ontimeout setting in syslinux.cfg got the thing to boot after the timeout period and plugging in a PS/2 keyboard meant I could select a kernel to boot. I have now discovered that on some old BIOSes it is necessary to set "Enable legacy USB support" otherwise USB keyboards are not recognised during the boot process (ie after the BIOS has handed over to something else presumably, as it is recognised when fiddling with the BIOS settings). Of course my BIOS is one of these as well. There is an upgrade available (dated 2008...), I may give it a go.
So your script worked fine, but my cranky old server needed some tweaking.
Somehow I have missed this thread...
Indeed SysRescueCD was my default tool for anything IT, I modified a few for digital forensics. Looks like they were never published, will need to dig them.
But at least I have mostly full archive of the old vanilla versions :-D
Just in case! Also, at some point the old ones were published on SourceForge again.
I see now that one can get at least down to 5.0.0 https://sourceforge.net/projects/system ... esccd-x86/
Indeed SysRescueCD was my default tool for anything IT, I modified a few for digital forensics. Looks like they were never published, will need to dig them.
But at least I have mostly full archive of the old vanilla versions :-D
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$ rhash --sha512 --printf="%{sha-512} %f %{mtime}\n" SysRescueCD/* |sort -k2,2
ff1c7ec9cca5c10ba2bf3fe6d6b1fd997ee70cd9d35b1ce565843f55e2e238a9e6d29a864ead158783157d955a8e7de6c70989559c77c2a54c972acd62c42129 systemrescuecd-x86-0.2.19.iso 2006-05-07 14:57:42
2eaf72491cf51a083a75601749511fca7402436e1876f533f0668bb509d72d8dec0615c57fd1440c0e4815b54936369101b0d2a2483bcf4f5cb5ff35ca244887 systemrescuecd-x86-0.3.2.iso 2007-01-09 13:35:33
35d939e1ed6fbd26c4487b320b86fe7320c89ecc02efd7c38bd43bcd68a1bf678a42369c69d9aa93c10b59159bd4a579e2439cf2ae658d9d9d8a628274e4f98f systemrescuecd-x86-0.3.3.iso 2007-03-01 09:22:20
7342c8139ba4710bfc98d33f38a464365cd2f71939255174278748885dc43f7fae67ac64f97118bf5199d9e36b9235c257ae44917143664b836ac02f20110bf4 systemrescuecd-x86-0.3.6.iso 2007-06-10 22:07:59
01c978fc991ff9c36fae77fa73bea0f31a5c3c14bd433f70d24a5a4eec946dd888be7d82f3be8e5ac338e6d82fec33df06eba538d8449a815927fd9526113b77 systemrescuecd-x86-0.4.0.iso 2007-10-03 22:18:23
dfff7872dd7bc0bfe877f33663a2b49501ad0c9d35a1d37eb0e880a7b5bb2fb97b1ef58382b20be6d9374063e60d553fdb4a9ddabb1e454019449cd653882598 systemrescuecd-x86-1.0.3.iso 2008-05-26 00:20:57
6b6e77da6568d15d9a23355d6a4525426b36de1ed12aa482579dd69ef01c8b2f5f018f8e3d9672f1ef9126a5f86611db5b9e24d0a9c72ed17f2cd271134cc4ca systemrescuecd-x86-1.1.0.iso 2008-10-16 18:01:41
52a6ef8e8fec11209a5ffe83072661fcb0b20cf342a7829d87792a9ac0507df73e304507df983e781f43d46678521003bb83c0090bf77843d1cdf7333a1296f0 systemrescuecd-x86-1.1.6.iso 2009-02-25 22:43:24
76e9ed02215e735ee65590d812ee487c81dabb2cc99ab204bce609a729a2133d73d5d7a4769f48266fc1b1f65e1e830a7ee4a74023d16c6797b4ac956f52a737 systemrescuecd-x86-1.2.0.iso 2009-05-09 15:13:42
1caeb2d2c616d29a013e46ab4d23481eb4a4657132f5df080f1e6353cee987069c7e41e178168f7ffdb281ae5639e8bcaddbd117ca9d9b830308240562d31c9c systemrescuecd-x86-1.3.4.iso 2009-12-21 22:54:35
b56726796d1f71a61f11aebd998523ad08307b4c96d81f021084d9216a421a866bbee00585361f7a01c7e287d3d0de1dbe199ef04c0f958478321bcc7ed8a082 systemrescuecd-x86-2.0.1.iso 2011-02-15 22:39:25
211371be6ddc059f34519c68a87ee392db155a09d7d65d1d8d2feea6bbda6eadc9d80fd9daed64f2fcd3c00128e9a048fe8df064d97166bf7414d544aa97e4bc systemrescuecd-x86-2.1.0.iso 2011-04-06 09:36:19
f75ee114ad82f31f3785ec501c8a757d903419a6748b1ef7c82d17c481872d52403aa972724ed760ef56ee4c7468058bd7de9ae02be3cf551b3a874e996dcabc systemrescuecd-x86-3.0.0.iso 2012-08-30 21:01:31
712210a31360d36ec6d4f6d0cc6bca8241d068972ab052488643c85b9312d3be2d5253374ded6a06fafb7f84306c92e4abfcbed02b3f56a61858f3558623eedd systemrescuecd-x86-3.1.2.iso 2012-12-05 20:29:05
3a42dd487b69d098074ffde2737b8c87c1214335dfa7e875e7e91ea59b190db5621e9d8db33590e8286ea08bdd29307cb65c158ad17b56c283d0a6a816e43e8d systemrescuecd-x86-3.3.0.iso 2013-01-24 22:03:01
e914d53dde2acd4955578a36de4fcb202ef7f1ea74a297048254fc89038b473045af95e9bb9af4a87e1ea386cb65e9fea4b95ec56e42058da04bc0fe0115c992 systemrescuecd-x86-3.7.0.iso 2013-06-05 19:23:55
4330070a5bacff112792a003622fb34c37643224fa7b9980b72bd6d8686d10fb531ef09789dc904d5643514c418937079041bc943d9cd967ac63fd8302c605f8 systemrescuecd-x86-4.0.0.iso 2014-01-14 20:05:08
41da3920442e6969ed37e81077363b799aad46206a8b5bb1758e8a4aa55e2f8532a0e8f56bdea196df6f95ca7d1070cf7a99cf714fe6b65021e25afa2076b006 systemrescuecd-x86-4.2.0.iso 2014-04-15 20:59:19
0424fab36e2caf7e3e9dd7c334d57b7eb9a090e3d79c52ea8e003e05931558b48be5375ac49eaaa78141d179d7153c91c386a42d7ead8d56ef3113363b8ff692 systemrescuecd-x86-4.8.1.iso 2016-08-15 09:36:09
04c89f0140245992aac2659b2b0114ae2961bd382ca302a70fe8dc2348286099601011b16c339cb95ca13345aaed94749272a61f86223dec30cb31328565665b systemrescuecd-x86-4.9.0.iso 2016-10-29 20:31:26
67e442f229c55d16a13a46619134afee14fd7cf71e9d5e3d6f54a7b2ce3646e9ff89a17605c05f7a255b251c3bc56004aa9a59bd06f3ed69f7f4b9057ea6ea6c systemrescuecd-x86-5.0.0.iso 2017-04-23 07:55:28
516e60632459dd5408f83035aa265ed4169b13f978a23960a85837c9c8b5bbab70776e22a6e6727184bd9df81cbbeff4a5819d5927ff0ff3a79036bc4c54cfdc systemrescuecd-x86-5.1.2.iso 2017-11-05 08:58:08
42da80a419aa27bea891339dc163a62bff8ba34d74c202a7fd0317592e8870a71ddc7fa9e9ded5e9d2f75dc36ec8417673074ffde60ea472815405456e34876c systemrescuecd-x86-5.2.0.iso 2018-02-03 09:53:12
1038622e148995450e61cd27f65af2ecb929ec8d0367fec3dbde01410a33596ec8f183d79ab931595c21deb597d60dae45ad516d8e1f00f32013729bdcd53ec8 systemrescuecd-x86-5.3.1.iso 2018-09-17 19:52:33
c9da6a63556836bd38f7072b49a5408f2f9e5fa310dbae3f229c9b7af4fe6e073cdfc95b942bc1a6d9c42d41527fc54e8c6c15379082bc3ee0f025da80b01e5a systemrescuecd-x86-5.3.2.iso 2019-05-12 22:18:50
I see now that one can get at least down to 5.0.0 https://sourceforge.net/projects/system ... esccd-x86/