Is there such a thing as a CentOS rescue disk? Google gives many links to such a thing, but when I pursue them I do not get to an URL
where I can actually download one.
officially from CentOS project, they doesn’t have this kind of thing. you can use CentOS installation dvd/cd for rescuing your system.
regards,
Asif Murad Khan
Always Learning wrote:
Thanks, I’ll try that.
I actually found that a Fedora-20 Live CD (on a USB stick)
did the trick. After booting into the Troubleshoot option and then choosing “Boot from local disk”
it actually found the current CentOS-6.5 system and booted into it.
I was quite surprised as the system had two other OSes on it –
a Fedora-20 partition and an old CentOS partition. I assume the rescue found and used the setup in the /boot partition.
But if it can do this, it seems a pity that grub cannot offer at least an alternative to the flashing “-” it was showing me.
It also seems a pity that the CentOS Live CD
does not offer a similar Troubleshooting option.
5 thoughts on - CentOS-6.5 Rescue Disk?
In the past I used
http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/
That is no longer free. Try
http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd
hi,
officially from CentOS project, they doesn’t have this kind of thing. you can use CentOS installation dvd/cd for rescuing your system.
regards,
Asif Murad Khan
Always Learning wrote:
Thanks, I’ll try that.
I actually found that a Fedora-20 Live CD (on a USB stick)
did the trick. After booting into the Troubleshoot option and then choosing “Boot from local disk”
it actually found the current CentOS-6.5 system and booted into it.
I was quite surprised as the system had two other OSes on it –
a Fedora-20 partition and an old CentOS partition. I assume the rescue found and used the setup in the /boot partition.
But if it can do this, it seems a pity that grub cannot offer at least an alternative to the flashing “-” it was showing me.
It also seems a pity that the CentOS Live CD
does not offer a similar Troubleshooting option.
Can’t think of anything that can top Knoppix:
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html