On 2 November 2014 13:14:56 WET, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 01.11.2014 um 23:28 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > > On 1 November 2014 17:19:18 WET, Peter Humphrey > > <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > > > On Saturday 01 November 2014 15:38:43 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > One useful feature for me is that grub2 will boot from an > ISO > > image, I always keep system rescue cd image in /boot. > > > > > > We all have our own ways of doing things. My equivalent to that > is to have a > > small rescue system in its own partition on each box, tailored > to its > > companion main system. > > > > > > That's what I used to do until I found grub 2 could boot an ISO. Now > I > > only need to copy one file to /boot to update my rescue setup. > > -- > > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > I have an usb stick for that. Advantage: even if the ssd containing / > and /boot dies, I can get to my data in /home.
Oh, I have a couple of USB sticks too, but having it in boot means I don't have to look in half a dozen places to find one. The USB sticks are used in real emergencies. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
