Aspire One: Restore process, hehe

Photo: Jaako on Flickr.

Got to try out the restore features of the Aspire today as I f*cked up editing the /etc/fstab file

I added several tmpfs entries (to disable logging to SSD and so on) and after that it would not boot. My immediate suspicion is that the kernel had not been compiled with tmpfs support, but this assumption failed after the restore when I reviewed the supported FS’s. Anyhow, I’m gonna dig into just why it failed later on.

You live, you learn hehe

Anyways, the restore CD that shipped with the unit can be used in two ways:

1. Boot using an external CD-reader and restore

2. Boot and create a bootable USB-stick (minimum 2GB), from which you can then boot and restore

I chose the latter and the stick creation was smooth. I used an HP-laptop to boot on the CD and it detected my stick immediately after chosing mode of operation (1 or 2 above). The process of copying data and making the stick bootable was finished in under 10 minutes, but this might vary between host computers and USB-hubs.

Then I shut down the Aspire, which was hanging in a semi-booted mode, and inserted the stick. During boot (BIOS) I pressed F12 and chose to boot from USB.

The actual restore vent fine and took about 15-16 minutes.

So now I got a spanking clean Linpus installation again