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• 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

• (..) What Rescatux does not do
• (..) 0.30 series videos
• (..) Review Copyright notice
• (..) Graphical documentation
• (..) Spanish graphical documentation

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).

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

• (..) 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

• (..) What Rescatux does not do
• (..) 0.30 series videos
• (..) Review Copyright notice
• (..) Graphical documentation
• (..) Spanish graphical documentation

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).

I happen to have too much work currently and I suspect that Rescatux development will be postponed for a month. Well, a part from English, Spanish and Catalan graphical documentation, I have some help from bTactic to complete such features.

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.

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.

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 .

Source code and other downloads
Useful Rescatux Options:

• Restore Grub to the MBR
• Update Grub Configuration
• Filesystem check (Fix forced)
• Fix of Windows MBR (Currently in beta status)
• Blank Windows password
• Boot Info Script

Changelog:

• Hard disk order dialog rewritten into python
• UI was improved with some icons
• Tried to improve Fix of Windows MBR option

Some comments about the release:

This release does not add any new useful options compared to Rescatux 0.29 so you are not advised to renew your Rescatux disk if you already have Rescatux 0.29.

This is the second release of the Rescatux 0.30 series. It is a beta because there are some many changes in the UI. Please comment your experience on the Rescatux forum. Please say your word at Super Grub mailing list or try to find us at Rescatux chat.

The rewrite of a hard disk dialog into Python usually it is not a reason to make a release not even a beta release. But… it is because the current dialog is quite a nightmare to understand. Now you choose a hard disk press on UP button and it moves upwards.

Now that I have managed to implement such a python dialog I think the rest of the Rescatux 0.30 development will be easier. It’s interesting that some people think that Rescatux lacks an application for installing packages (synaptic). I will think about it.

I have also tried to improve the Fix of Windows MBR option but install-mbr command is deceiving me. I might finally rely on syslinux and setting up active partitions.

Waiting for your feedback!

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.

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.

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.