Re: Creating a bootable filesystem

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Tim Grossner said:
> I need to create a bootable ext2 filesystem on an existing server, on a
> partition that has been set aside for it. Upon booting this system, i need
> to be able to run fsck...anyone know what files i need to copy to this
> partition/filesystem?

Find a sash binary.  It's a little shell designed to be statically
linked, with a lot of functionality (like ls) built-in.  Slap
/sbin/e2fsck on there, and you should have a semi-usable rescue
"system" (assuming e2fsck is statically linked, as it should be).

You might also want to look at http://www.toms.net/rb/ and the various
links he has there...

Steve
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