Howto create a bootable rescue USB key ?

[eric_pascual]

Hello,

I confess not being very familiar with this kind of stuff in the Linux world, so here is my problem.

I would need to create a bootable USB key for the 2486 in order to be able to run fsck on partitions of the Flash memory.

Since I upgraded the installed file system to Max Linux, the boot reports /dev/sda5 be mounted with errors, and suggests running fsck on it. The problem is that, as anybody may know, running fsck on a mounted file system is strongly discouraged and can lead to fatal problems. Thus the need for the bootable USB key including required content to run fsck.

Could someone point me to a step by step procedure for creating such a beast ?

Thanks in advance

Best regards

[hne]

Hello,

creating bootable USB stick is not easy. On internet exist many descriptions for doing that.

Running fsck:
You can run fsck on mounted filesystem. The different is: You should it not run on read/write mounted system. In boot loader we have set option "ro" (read only), so fsck can run at boot time before the system will remounted it read/write.

An other way is to use the MIN-Linux. Min-Linux still exist, as long you have not removed it. After Power on, simple press and hold down key "ESC" in a serial terminal and wait for this message: