The following is a continuation of a series of columns on Linux disasters and how to recover from them, inspired in part by a Halloween Linux Journal Live episode ...
There are some situations where you'll wish you had one.
The GRUB configuration became trashed on system restarts. These occurrences blocked access to booting into either the Windows OS or a specific Linux distro. Without the Grand Unified Bootloader, aka ...
Last year I worked on a project to add an OEM-style rescue partition to a computer. Where most OEM installs have a custom program that just rewrites an install image over the top of the partition, in ...