Package: debirf Version: 0.34 Followup-For: Bug #620294 I just got a need for this again today: i was wiping a friend's machine before disposal, and of course doing this while running Debian itself is a recipe for disaster.
(I did anyways: i ran badblock -wsvf /dev/hda, which worked for a while until something happend (probably it hit the swap partition or something) and the screen went mostly blank. Then X crashed and i ended up on the console, which wouldn't give me a password prompt. Control-alt-del would fill the screen with "UUUUUUU[...]UUUU: command not found". Pretty awesome stuff.) So of course i looked at debirf again to solve that need. I was actually trying my "stressant" distro, but it turns out the ISO we built doesn't boot anymore, I don't quite understand why. In fact, even a "rescue" ISO doesn't boot, a bug reported in: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=806377 So now I'm stuck: i don't have a running system anymore, so I can't install the initrd by hand. I can't run this off a USB stick either. I *could* setup netboot, but at this point I gave up and ripped the hard drive out and will try to shove it in an enclosure at some point. It would be great to see some way forward here: it would make debirf so much more useful! It could of course reuse the existing kernels, we would just need to deploy a initrd from debirf... Should i look at working on this? -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debirf depends on: ii apt 1.0.9.8.1 ii cpio 2.11+dfsg-4.1 ii debootstrap 1.0.67 ii fakechroot 2.17.2-1 ii fakeroot 1.20.2-1 ii klibc-utils 2.0.4-2 Versions of packages debirf recommends: ii grub-common 2.02~beta2-22 ii lsb-release 4.1+Debian13+nmu1 ii syslinux-common 3:6.03+dfsg-5+deb8u1 ii xorriso 1.3.2-1.1 debirf suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
