Not a fan of flash drives since they're generally slow and unreliable so I've been working on a project to create a bootable rescue disk that I can update with apt.
I was originally gonna do this on an external NVMe but I had a 240gb external ssd already so I decided to give it a try.
First I went here - https://www.system-rescue.org/System-tools/ and installed every tool mentioned except for three or four that I'll never use and stuck them on my Sid laptop - also arch-install-scripts to make for an easy chroot. Then to make a long story short I booted up a system rescue USB and rsynced my laptop's partitions to the external SSD, chrooted into the SSD and did an update-initramfs just in case and reinstalled grub.
Using efibootmgr I created boot entries on all three machines for the external SSD and put it at the top of the boot order.
Now I have a rescue disk with all the tools I need - and I can update it with apt. It's also considerably faster and more reliable than a flash drive![:)]( "Smile")
All three machines have Intel networking and video and hardware acceleration even works on the rescue SSD. It's been a pretty good project - I probably will eventually clone this rescue SSD to an external NVMe for portability reasons but I'm really happy with the results so far.
I was originally gonna do this on an external NVMe but I had a 240gb external ssd already so I decided to give it a try.
First I went here - https://www.system-rescue.org/System-tools/ and installed every tool mentioned except for three or four that I'll never use and stuck them on my Sid laptop - also arch-install-scripts to make for an easy chroot. Then to make a long story short I booted up a system rescue USB and rsynced my laptop's partitions to the external SSD, chrooted into the SSD and did an update-initramfs just in case and reinstalled grub.
Using efibootmgr I created boot entries on all three machines for the external SSD and put it at the top of the boot order.
Now I have a rescue disk with all the tools I need - and I can update it with apt. It's also considerably faster and more reliable than a flash drive
All three machines have Intel networking and video and hardware acceleration even works on the rescue SSD. It's been a pretty good project - I probably will eventually clone this rescue SSD to an external NVMe for portability reasons but I'm really happy with the results so far.
Statistics: Posted by wizard10000 — 2025-03-04 15:04 — Replies 3 — Views 161