SystemRescue is a platform which provides a boot image for system rescue of any system. This instructions will allow you to add this functionality to your PXEBoot environment
Step 1: Basic Details
SystemRescue is available for information at this site.
SystemRescue (formerly known as SystemRescueCd) is a Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the hard disk partitions. It comes with a lot of Linux system utilities such as GParted, fsarchiver, filesystem tools and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It can be used for both Linux and windows computers, and on desktops as well as servers. This rescue system requires no installation as it can be booted from a CD/DVD drive or USB stick, but it can be installed on the hard disk if you wish. The kernel supports all important file systems (ext4, xfs, btrfs, vfat, ntfs), as well as network filesystems such as Samba and NFS.
Step 2: Download image
Download the most current image and place it in the PXE boot image environment:
# mkdir -p /srv/tftp/images/rescue # cd /srv/tftp/images/rescue < download the image and place it in this directory > # ln -s systemrescue-9.05-amd64.iso systemrescue-amd64.iso
Step 3: Configure X86 Netboot
Configure the /srv/tftp/boot-screens/menu.cfg and add a rescue section:
.... include boot-screens/rescue.cfg ....
Create the rescue installer menu/srv/tftp/boot-screens/rescue.cfg
label rescue
menu label ^Recovery or Rescue
kernel images/memdisk
append iso initrd=images/rescue/systemrescue-amd64.iso
Step 4: Configure EFI Netboot
Create the rescue installer menu in /srv/tftp/grub/grub.cfg
menuentry 'System Recovery or Rescue' --class recovery {
set background_color=black
set isofile="/images/rescue/systemrescue-amd64.iso"
loopback loop $isofile
linux (loop)/sysresccd/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz archisobasedir=sysresccd img_loop=$isofile earlymodules=loop
initrd (loop)/sysresccd/boot/intel_ucode.img (loop)/sysresccd/boot/amd_ucode.img (loop)/sysresccd/boot/x86_64/sysresccd.img
}