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#1 Re: DIY » Chimaera Minimal Live ISO Customization Question » 2023-03-27 18:56:09

I think I just answered by own question. I did not realize my hardware was running in Legacy mode, not EFI, so changing the \boot\grub\grub.cfg file was never read.
If anyone runs into this, you have to go and change the \isolinux\isolinux.cfg file instead.

#2 DIY » Chimaera Minimal Live ISO Customization Question » 2023-03-27 18:21:35

3t0n1c
Replies: 10

Hey guys, I just have a quick question. I am sure someone here will know the answer rather quickly.

So, I am trying to customize the ISO to suite my needs during crunch time when I have a down system and I need to restore or need all the necessary tools be available on hand. This includes a lot of custom bash scripts, etc that I need to have on the ISO itself.

Make a long story short, I know how to modify it and add my own scripts so that they're available upon boot.

What I would also like to do is change grub.cfg in such a way that I don't have to pass kernel parameters such as "vga=" at boot time, but rather hardcode it.
I edited \boot\grub\grub.cfg, made a new ISO but the changes do not show when I boot from my new ISO.
It seems to me that the grub.cfg file is indeed ignored, or rather loaded from elsewhere.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you all.

#3 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Udev Question » 2023-03-16 14:12:31

I appreciate it sir.

That is what I was looking for. I realized Devuan was using eudev instread, but it was not clear to me how things worked.

I guess one could also use "service eudev restart" to restart the service it seems. It worked for me.

Once again thank you for your input.

#4 Other Issues » [SOLVED] Udev Question » 2023-03-16 12:48:46

3t0n1c
Replies: 2

Hey guys, I have a question.
My understanding is that Devuan uses eudev. I've been poking around trying to figure out how to restart "udev" or how to manually start it.
Can someone knowledgeable on the matter pitch in?

So if not udev or eudev, what is used in Devuan for device nodes management?

If you could explain how it's being run by default and how one can trigger it to rerun when needed, that would be awesome. I am aware this is very much automated in normal conditions.

Thank you

Manny

#5 Other Issues » Devuan 4 + ReaR (Relax-and-Recover) Issue » 2023-03-07 20:41:41

3t0n1c
Replies: 0

Hi all. I am here to seek a bit of help.
I have been using Devuan for years and this seem to be the first time, for me at least that I came across an application that is available through apt-get that seems to be broken.
So after being fully updated to date, I ran apt-get install rear - which installed without any hesitation.

I am able to use rear to create backups in ISO format, but cannot restore as when it runs it wants to run systemd-udevd which doesnt exist.
I think that is the issue here.
So then it errors out like so: "ERROR: Cannot mount ISO because there is no/dev/disk/by-label/RELAXRECOVER".

I even went ahead and side loaded rear-2.7 and that blows up just as bad.

So, is it possible that this application just can't work with Devuan due to the systemd not being available or is there something else going on that I can't wrap my head around at this time?

Has anyone out there gotten ReaR to work on Devuan, and if so would you mind sharing your experience?

I have tried it on multiple physical and VM environments, and it always fails in the same way.
I then loaded Debian 10 and 11. ReaR works flawlessly on both of those with the same config that fails on Devuan 4.

I've also opened a ticket with ReaR on github, so if anything this is the link to it:
https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/2955

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Regards

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