Rescuing Linux

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Sometimes you need perform irregular, unpleasant tasks involving a Linux box. One generally picks up the techniques via experience. This kind of thing tends to become less necessary as one learns Linux better, and thus it's easy to lose currency. The introduction of [[systemd]], for instance, changed almost all of this shit up. Almost everything here requires access to the console, relevant only long before sshd is running.

Sometimes you need perform irregular, unpleasant tasks involving a Linux box. One generally picks up the techniques via experience. This kind of thing tends to become less necessary as one learns Linux better, and thus it's easy to lose currency. The introduction of [[systemd]], for instance, changed almost all of this shit up. Almost everything here requires access to the console, relevant only long before sshd is running (though take a look at e.g. [https://wiki.debian.org/RescueInitramfs RescueInitramfs]).

==grub==

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Do yourself a favor and install [https://packages.debian.org/sid/memtest86+ memtest86+], which will be automatically added to your grub menu on [[UEFI]] machines.

~~==access sans password==~~

==kernel command line==

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==fsck on boot==

==access sans password==

==External links==

* Debian wiki page for [https://wiki.debian.org/initramfs initramfs]

* Kernel documentation for [https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.html Ramfs, Rootfs, and Initramfs]

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-Sometimes you need perform irregular, unpleasant tasks involving a Linux box. One generally picks up the techniques via experience. This kind of thing tends to become less necessary as one learns Linux better, and thus it's easy to lose currency. The introduction of [[systemd]], for instance, changed almost all of this shit up. Almost everything here requires access to the console, relevant only long before sshd is running.
+Sometimes you need perform irregular, unpleasant tasks involving a Linux box. One generally picks up the techniques via experience. This kind of thing tends to become less necessary as one learns Linux better, and thus it's easy to lose currency. The introduction of [[systemd]], for instance, changed almost all of this shit up. Almost everything here requires access to the console, relevant only long before sshd is running (though take a look at e.g. [https://wiki.debian.org/RescueInitramfs RescueInitramfs]).
 ==grub==
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 Do yourself a favor and install [https://packages.debian.org/sid/memtest86+ memtest86+], which will be automatically added to your grub menu on [[UEFI]] machines.
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 ==kernel command line==
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 ==fsck on boot==
+==access sans password==
 ==External links==
 * Debian wiki page for [https://wiki.debian.org/initramfs initramfs]
 * Kernel documentation for [https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.html Ramfs, Rootfs, and Initramfs]