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Whenever I release a new beta the idea is to copy and paste this roadmap and to replace the dots (..) with the beta version where the feature has been implemented. An example would be: (0.30b3).

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Rescatux 0.30b5 released

Posted on April 27, 2012 by adrian15

Rescatux 0.30 beta 5 has been released.

Rescatux 0.30 beta 5 Cdrom or USB ISO for x86 or amd64 MultiMirror #1
Mirror #2 Mirror #3
MD5 (361 Megabytes)
Changelog:

Update Grub option documentation was translated into Spanish and Catala thanks to bTactic
Fix: Findiso boot parametre used from experimental debian live packages. Now Rescatux which includes SG2D should boot and work ok when dd’ed to usbs
Fixed: Hard disk order not working with n different than 2
Super Grub2 Disk now loads without Rescatux theme so you see it with the original Super Grub2 Disk colours
Fixed: Most of the times you booted Rescatux you get a black background and no icons on the desktop.
Added RAID and LVM2 support for command line experts.

As I said this is Rescatux 0.30 roadmap updated:

Bugs and Feature requests they are found in Forja Cenatic. Thank you Cenatic!

Feature requests

(..) Change user password
(..) Reset sudoers file

Bugs to be fixed

(0.30b4) Detect 64bit
(..) Bind Ctrl+q to Quit
(0.30b5) Hard disk order not working with n different than 2

Issues that need to be addressed before the release

Whenever I release a new beta the idea is to copy and paste this roadmap and to replace the dots (..) with the beta version where the feature has been implemented. An example would be: (0.30b3).

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Working on findiso for Debian Live

Posted on April 7, 2012 by adrian15

In the last couple of days I’ve been working on findiso boot parametre for Debian live. Findiso is an originally grml boot parametre which scans all the drives searching for a given iso. Once the iso has been found it loop mounts it and the debian live systems boots up as always.

This is an improvement over the fromiso/isofrom boot parametre which forces you to specify in which drive exactly the iso is found.

Grml is a Debian Live derivative as Rescatux is. Either I had to apply (and maintain) the findiso patch myself or improve it so that it would be accepted into Debian Live. I’ve decided the second option. Just wait a few weeks so that it’s released in unstable and then just use findiso without having to apply any patch.

The findiso parametre will solve the 0.30b4 usb issues.

You can follow the bug status at Add findiso boot parametre debian issue.

There might be some problems for making use of this functionality from grub2 but I’ll deal with that too.

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Recovering a Windows Password with Rescatux Video

Posted on April 6, 2012 by adrian15

TechChaser1 has done a nice video about Recovering a Windows Password with Rescatux . He insists that tool is legal and guaranteed (not sure about this last bit ). The great thing about the video is that he is recording an actual computer with a camera, he does no cuts and he explains himself what steps he performs.

Sometimes the screen is a little blurred but the video is more funny than my current Rescatux videos for 0.2X version.

Enjoy the video:

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Super Grub Disk 0.9800 April Fools Day archived

Posted on April 6, 2012 by adrian15

In order not to frighten anyone else anymore I’ve decided to archive the Super Grub Disk 0.9800 April Fools Day release. Thanks to the Spanish Zimbra experts bTactic for the hosting.

I had waited some time because the file was going to be replicated into SF from berlios but it hasn’t. We will have to debug this issue later. Not to say that the next thing I am going to do is to remove the release download from berlios and some other important sites where they reference to it.

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Happy 2012 April Fools’ Day

Posted on April 2, 2012 by adrian15

He, he he! XD

If you have tried Super Grub Disk 0.9800 yesterday you will have noticed that were unable to write NO when asked if you wanted to delete your partitions and folders.

You might have been asked to delete your WINDOWS folder:

Or you might have been asked to delete some of your Gnu/Linux files:

Just to find that MFSTH4CK3R wanted to delete your stupid LAINUX TOY OS.

But finally it was just an April Fools Day joke:

Some more facts about the joke:

This is not Super Grub Disk (based on Grub1) but Super Grub2 Disk.
The script was designed to find no more than 23 folders or so… that meant that you would be only suffering for about 40 seconds.
40 seconds time was choosen so that people didn’t have time to press ctrl+alt+del
40 seconds time was choosen so that could use the disk as SG2D anyways (Having to wait till it loops into all your hard disks and filesystems is not funny the third time you see it).
I sent the release to Freecode (freshmeat) March 31 but instead of being published on April 1 it get published in March 31.
I also sent the piece of news to Barrapunto (the Spanish slashdot).
I don’t have time to resurrect SGD and it makes no sense with Grub2 having scripting and so on.
There happens to be a patch for Grub1 to make it support btrfs.
You can chainload Grub2 from Grub1. (/boot/grub/core.img)
Restore Grub2 from Grub1 with an special dd command? Might be. But not sure if it’s even possible.

And that,s it. Now I have to decide if I remove the SGD 0.9800 release of if I left it there so that I can drive people to Super Grub2 Disk and Rescatux.

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Super Grub Disk 0.9800 released

Posted on April 1, 2012 by adrian15

Super Grub Disk 0.9800 Cdrom / USB Mirror #1

Super Grub Disk 0.9800 Source Code

I was a bit of nostalgic and in last two weeks I’ve been fighting myself with a virtualised Debian Lenny and gcc-3.3 to make build Grub1 and Super Grub Disk with it.

Here are the new features. How said that Grub1 was dead?

Chainloads Grub2 stage so that you can boot Grub2 systems.
Grub1 patched to support btrfs
Restores Grub2 with custom dd command

Hope you like it!

Ah, I forgot, with a little trick of assembler I’ve made the disk to be both usable for cdrom and usb. You can use the USB Super Grub2 Disk instructions in order to put it into a USB. Remember that you will loose all the USB contents because we’re using dd instead of the old Grub1 root and setup commands which could preserve the USB filesystem.

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Rescatux 0.30 beta 4 USB issues

Posted on February 12, 2012 by adrian15

As Max says the Universal USB installer no longer seems to work for 0.30 beta 4 version.

It does totally makes sense. Universal USB installer it is designed to deal with isolinux based cdroms which are the most of them. I suppose they have not thought grub2 based live cds. So… What do to then?

As I have explained in the Rescatux wiki you should work with the iso (which happens to be an isolinux iso) which it is inside the iso you are downloading.

Another issue comes when using the official method. It does not work. Yes, it works. The usb boots and Super Grub2 Disk is fully functional but trying to boot any of the Rescatux options fails. As I explain in the issue the main reason for this for failing is that making Rescatux to boot from SG2D is more a workaround that a final solution. Either I improve the workaround (detect partition UUID when no label is found) or I implement the debian-live requested improvements for the grml fromiso patch which it is the final fix.

If you still want to use the official method for putting Rescatux into the USB what you should do… Yes, you have guessed… use the iso inside the iso as in the Universal USB installer case.

The nice thing about this is that I would have found this last problem myself if I had tested it… but I don’t try usb versions of Rescatux myself, just the cdrom version. I will have to improve that.

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Rescatux 0.30b4 released

Posted on January 23, 2012 by adrian15

Rescatux 0.30 beta 4 has been released.

Rescatux 0.30 beta 4 Cdrom or USB ISO for x86 or amd64 MultiMirror #1
Mirror #2 Mirror #3
MD5 (355 Megabytes)

Super Grub2 Disk 1.99b1 is included (Actually it boots from it not from isolinux)
It autodetects 64bit systems and loads the appropiate kernel accordingly. This will fix most of the errors about not being able to restore Grub.

As I said this is Rescatux 0.30 roadmap updated:

Bugs and Feature requests they are found in Forja Cenatic. Thank you Cenatic!

Feature requests

(..) Change user password
(..) Reset sudoers file

Bugs to be fixed

(0.30b4) Detect 64bit
(..) Bind Ctrl+q to Quit
(..) Hard disk order not working with n different than 2

Issues that need to be addressed before the release

Whenever I release a new beta the idea is to copy and paste this roadmap and to replace the dots (..) with the beta version where the feature has been implemented. An example would be: (0.30b3).

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