[TriLUG] Best Live CD?

[Ritesh Kumar]

Hi Maarten,
    I have used grub on knoppix for fixing MBR's on systems. It has been a
godsend at times :). I was referring to something more lightweight than
that. Basically,
 - insert live cd and boot
 - at the grub boot screen, press c to get to the grub commandline
 - boot into the machines linux installation with some cmdline parameters,
or use the on cd kernel (wow!) and boot into the machine's installation.

It is also useful if you are trying to boot into freebsd or windows
installation but cannot do it because of a corrupted MBR (which you don't
want to replace with grub).
I know this something very small but I have run into this problem more than
anything else :(

Ritesh

On 11/1/07, Maarten Lippmann <m.w.lippmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Although knoppix uses isolinux to boot, it still contains a version of
> grub to do just what you want.
> Just run "knoppix 3" when it boots, mount your /boot partition and run
> grub with the command grub ;) and do your magic.
>
> On Nov 1, 2007 6:25 PM, Ritesh Kumar <ritesh at cs.unc.edu> wrote:
> > BTW, Does anybody know of a live cd which has grub on it as its boot
> > manager? Most of the trouble shooting that I have to do in my lab
> involves a
> > flexible way of booting linux or trouble shooting a corrupted hard disk
> MBR.
> > I generally keep a grub floppy ... but floppies are so 1960's... in
> > reliability and performance...
> >
> > On a slightly different note... is there a reason ISOLinux is preferred
> in
> > almost all live CDs I have used (gentoo live CD, Knoppix, Ubuntu(?)).
> >
> > Ritesh
> >
> >
> > On 11/1/07, jbroome <jbroome at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Charles Fischer wrote:
> > > > I am looking for a live Linux CD.  It must be able to read and write
> > > > Microsoft's NTFS and work with USB hard drives.
> > >
> > >
> > > Which ones have you tried?
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