debian based live rescue system

Features

• direct boot into bash in under 10s
• file system + disk utilities
• network utilities
• additional utilities
• localization via /etc/default/locale - default en_US.UTF-8
• keymap set via /etc/default/keyboard - default de
• loadable via PXE or usb storage
• x64 only (default)
• optional data storage on /mnt/data (mounted via partlabel "data")

Additional utilities/scripts

Location: rootfs/usr/sbin

Media sanitization

hdd-erase

Execute a single run of shred to override the target device with random data

Usage

hdd-erase <device>

Example

hdd-erase /dev/sda

ssd-erase

Executes the ATA SECURE ERASE command on given device.

Sets the drive password temporarily to erase to execute the secure erase procedure. In case the drive is already password protected you have to remove the passphrase or execute hdparm --user-master u --security-erase erase manually!

Usage

ssd-erase <device>

Example

ssd-erase /dev/sdb

cpsysimg

Write a gz compressed, gpt based disk image to block device

Usage

cpsysimg <file> <device>

Example

cpsysimg /mnt/data/boot.img.gz /dev/sdb

USB storage boot

Partition layout

One storage partition contains the partlabel system to identify the system partition

Extlinux Config

DEFAULT rescue-linux
  SAY Now booting the kernel from SYSLINUX...
LABEL rescue-linux
  KERNEL ../kernel.img
  APPEND root=PARTLABEL=rescue-system pstorage=PARTLABEL=rescue-conf ro net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0
  INITRD ../initramfs.img

License

hypersolid is OpenSource and licensed under the Terms of GNU General Public Licence v2. You're welcome to contribute!