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caker · Last edited by caker on Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:25 pm; edited 3 times in total

Finnix LiveCD Recovery Distribution Support

I've added support to the LPM that allows you to utilize Finnix as a recovery/rescue/bootstrap distribution. It occupies none of your disk space, autoconfigures your network interface and swap files, and contains enough admin utilities to get just about anything done. To quote the Finnix website:

rfinnie · Senior Newbie Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 13

Thanks a lot for your support, caker. I'm very pleased how it turned out. This is a feature that, as far as I know, no other VDS provider has even attempted (despite many many people asking for it Smile

). Here's how it looks when you boot into the Finnix image:

TehDan · Junior Member Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 48

Awesom! An excellent new feature, thanks guys!

Ciaran · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 10:55 am Post subject:

Awesome. I can get rid of my Debian image now that I'd been keeping around for recovery in case I needed it. Very Happy

Thanks, guys.

crespowu · Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 1

Thanks for the new feature.

Xan · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:54 pm Post subject:

Welcome to the forums, crespowu!

The Linode forums contain a wealth of handy information, both about Linux in general and about running a Linode. One caveat when looking through them: keep an eye on the date of a post before replying. Sometimes ancient threads get resuscitated, and they start showing up at the top of the recent activity list. That's when dogs start living with cats and confusion reigns.

mwalling · Senior Member Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Posts: 329

Sorry,... couldn't resist.

taoteh1221 · Joined: 09 Feb 2009 Posts: 1 Location: Maine, USA

I just used this utility to successfully edit a script that crashed my server at startup...between your AJAX Console and this Finnix Recovery CD integration, your services are the best I've ever seen for a VPS...bravo. Very Happy

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cviniciusm · Senior Newbie Joined: 01 Jan 2009 Posts: 9

irgeek · Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:13 am Post subject:

Anywhere it says ub change it to xv. Everything else is exactly the same.

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mnordhoff · Senior Member Joined: 03 May 2008 Posts: 179

edavis · Junior Member Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 41

While upgrading my Arch system today something really bad occured with glibc resulting in bash not working because of library errors. Thankfully finnix was available as it saved my ass... thanks Linode!!! Very Happy

Narada · Senior Newbie Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 15

I just got this during a failed reboot.

[code]kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed
INIT: version 2.86 booting
hostname: the specified hostname is invalid
Activating swap...Adding 262136k swap on /dev/xvdb. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:262136k
done.
Checking root file system...fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
/dev/xvda has gone 338 days without being checked, check forced.
/dev/xvda: Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found.

/dev/xvda: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
(i.e., without -a or -p options)
fsck died with exit status 4
failed (code 4).
* An automatic file system check (fsck) of the root filesystem failed.
A manual fsck must be performed, then the system restarted.
The fsck should be performed in maintenance mode with the
root filesystem mounted in read-only mode.
* The root filesystem is currently mounted in read-only mode.
A maintenance shell will now be started.
After performing system maintenance, press CONTROL-D
to terminate the maintenance shell and restart the system.
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):[/code]

And this forum post sorted this all out for me.

And once again exceptional exemplary service by linode staff too in helping me out.

Thanks a lot.