Today I had to recover a machine from a disastrous power failure (yes, I had a UPS but it didn’t manage :P). The results was as usual: Kernel panic: Not syncing!! /sbin/init not found Doesn’t sound nice, does it? It wasn’t. My whole /lib was gone… I had to boot with root mounted to my [...]

Today I needed to create a bootable USB stick that does nothing else but just a reboot of the machine. Why? The machine is booting up from network, but the problem is what happens when the network is down or doesn’t reply fast enough. Unfortunately, the PXE didn’t have the option of booting in an [...]