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It’s Alive!!! It’s Alive!!!

Posted on January 16, 2012 by adrian15

After three days of fighting I have managed to make SG2D to boot Rescatux from its iso file.

Thanks goes to SynrG, dba and chals from #debian-live. And an special thanks to mrud from #grml which did find the final workaround that involved using fromiso.

The current workaround might be improved with a proper solution in upstream so that the loopback.cfg generation on debian live is very easy to implement.

You will have to wait a bit till you see a release that includes Rescatux and Super Grub2 Disk.

I need to fix some details such as having a nice background at super grub2 disk part which it is the main screen that you see.

And… of course… the architecture autodetect feature so that it autoboots into Rescatux 64bit or Rescatux 32bit according to your architecture.

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Doc: How to put Rescatux into a USB

Posted on December 18, 2011 by adrian15

I have finally added the official documentation about how to put Rescatux into a usb.

As it is explained in instructions. These instructions wipe your pendrive / usb device. So you loose all of its contents. So make sure you backup anything important on them.

And I ask you to give us feedback about the windows instructions. Either in the mailing list, the forum, chat or even as a comment in this post. I suspect that the if you format it as FAT32 you do not need to delete all the partitions but I am not sure at all.

The non official documentation (probably using unetbootin or yumi) is still lacking. Let’s hope that I can add it in next week.

An special thanks goes to Shades85 and his trials/errors.

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Doc: How to put Super Grub2 Disk into a usb

Posted on December 17, 2011 by adrian15

I have finally added the official documentation about how to put Super Grub2 Disk into a usb.

As it is explained in instructions. These instructions wipe your pendrive / usb device. So you loose all of its contents. So make sure you backup anything important on them.

And I ask you to give us feedback about the windows instructions. Either in the mailing list, the forum, chat or even as a comment in this post. We should know if dd complains about the device name or not.

The non official documentation (probably using unetbootin or yumi) is still lacking. Let’s hope that I can add it in next week. And Rescatux instructions too .

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Super Grub2 Disk 1.99 beta 1 released

Posted on November 19, 2011 by adrian15

After so much long I am pleased to announce: Super Grub2 Disk 1.99 beta 1.

This is the changelog:

Added support for Fedora’s grub.cfg (/boot/grub2 and /grub2 path)
Lua scripts were rewritten to cfg scripts so that they are more grub friendly
Colour was added which can be on or off
Super Grub2 Disk and its version is shown at main menu
Added basic translation system
Super Grub2 Disk was translated to Spanish
Based on Debian’s Grub 1.99

We need translators! Please check TRANSLATION file at source code to learn how to translate into your language.

Translations no longer needed:

Malay
German

This is a beta release so please comment any issue you find at the forum.

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Forum wide open and some maintenance.

Posted on November 13, 2011 by adrian15

Hi,

Today the database was moved to an exclusive database server which its RAM will be increased if it is not enough.

Forum has been upgraded to Simple Machines Forum 2 series.

And that update has let me enable the forum registration via email activation. This makes me unnecessary to approve every registration.

If the captcha and the two simple verification questions are not enough to stop spammers I will try to add some measures that disable access to well-known spammers.

Just enjoy the improvements. The database migration should imply a better web experience.

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Rescatux 0.30 beta 2 screenshots

Posted on November 13, 2011 by adrian15

Rescatux 0.30 beta 2 is not available for download. I just wanted to share you some screenshots on the current Rescatux development.

Now there is a Back button and most buttons have their correspondent icon to make them more international.

I still want to code an improvement on grub-install commands (an other commands) so that hard disk order is done from a Python program in an easy way.
Maybe fix some bugs from grub-install. It would be nice to detect 64-bit systems.

I am also thinking of adding an option to reset Linux passwords or not. So that I do not have to say that the new version has the same useful options as the old one.

I hope you like it. A very special thank you goes to Albert for his advice on the UI design.

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Rescatux 0.30 beta 1 screenshots

Posted on November 7, 2011 by adrian15

I join two screenshots from Rescatux 0.30 beta 1 to encourage you to download and try it.
You can learn more about Rescatux 0.30 beta 1 on Rescatux 0.30 beta 1 announcement and you can find it at Rescatux downloads.

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Boot into Linux from Windows thanks to Grub4Dos

Posted on November 1, 2011 by adrian15

I never write piece of news about wiki updates on the main page. I am doing an exception because I don’t update the wiki as often as in the old times.

So there are two new pages:

Boot into Linux from Windows thanks to Grub4Dos

and

Mikael63 and how he managed to boot into its Linux from Windows thanks to Grub4Dos .

This example is quite strange and I actually discourage the use of Grub4Dos for being as outdated as the Super Grub Disk (not Super Grub2 Disk). I suppose I will have to update my knowledge on how to do the same thing with grub2 (or knowing if it is possible at all).

By the way I have been working a little more on Rescatux 0.30 series. The QT and Python combination (pyqt) is a very powerful one. I will be able to show an integrated webbrowser to show the help of each command!

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Working on Rescatux 0.30 series

Posted on October 30, 2011 by adrian15

Hi all,

I just wanted to share you a bit about my development on Rescatux. I don’t have enough time to work on this project but I try. . I have already mentioned various features that could differentiate Rescatux 0.30 series from Rescatux 0.20 series.

However I am finally focusing in only one of these features. Rescatux gui is going to be based on pyqt. So I am reading a pyqt tutorial, I am checking how to run programs from it, updating the code and looking at some launchers.

The idea is to use pyqt only for the main gui that lets you choose options.

Pyqt will be used as the main component of resclib too.

But I will try to keep the option scripts (the ones that make something useful) bash based. Most people learn how to code in bash and I do not want to loose their code-power.

Pyqt will improve Rescapp gui so much that you would think it is another program . Let’s hope. I have to write so many mini-programs in pyqt to get used to it and then make bigger and bigger programs that understand my current file tree for options.

And… of course… the resclib part. I want people to order their hard disks in one dialog not in three dialogs as we are doing right now.

And… I have removed some ads from the main page and software pages so that it is easier to read.

Happy rescueing!

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I Super Grub Disk World Conference summary

Posted on September 24, 2011 by adrian15

Summary: Although we run out of time in the quest of including Super Grub2 Disk into Rescatux some work was done in a development machine kindly given by bTactic.

Notice: New people are welcome to help in the chat channel. It seems that people ask for help there and we are not there as often as needed. So… Maybe one of you want to help on building a wiki with FAQ from the chat channels? Just join it and present yourself.

From August 29th 2011 to August 31th 2011 the I Super Grub Disk World Conference was held in a secret place in California, USA.

Jordan Uggla and I met and tried to include Super Grub2 Disk into Rescatux. Unfortunately some problems in our hack planning made us run of time.

But some work was done. We have set up a development machine kindly given by bTactic to speed up Rescatux and Super Grub2 Disk integration. Now the problem is the lack of time. Coming back from my trip to California I found too many tasks on my desk. And I suppose that Jordan has his own duties too.

About the hack that we did. You know. You might think that having three days for hacking Super Grub2 Disk integration into Rescatux is too much. And that’s it. You are right. If you had a development environment ready and just want to add Super Grub2 Disk to Rescatux, that’s it. That’s easy!

But it would only have been once.

What we were trying to achieve is to:

Hack the debian-live scripts to boot from grub2 instead of isolinux.
Add the Super Grub2 Disk scripts into the disk (but not inside the chroot).
Send patches to debian-live

and that’s what we will continue to do when we have some free time .

You were supposed to see here a photo of the Rescatux / Super Grub2 Disk hacking. I always dreamt of doing it. Just a photo of the I Super Grub Disk World Conference with the two of us. Wow, 2 attendees! But, this is the great thing about hacking, once you are on it you loose your mind. XD

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