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|                     S Y S T E M S                        |
|                                                          |
|   BOOTLOADERS. KERNELS. OPERATING SYSTEMS.               |
|   THINGS THAT START MACHINES, AND THINGS THAT DON'T.     |
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This is where the systems get taken apart.

Bootloaders, kernels, broken repositories, strange
userlands, recovery work and the occasional attempt
to make old hardware do something it was never meant
to do.

Some notes are clean.

Some are archaeological.

A few exist because the machine refused to cooperate
until somebody started digging.

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BOOT & RECOVERY

GRUB_Recovery_for_Ubuntu_Dual_Boot_(UEFI).txt
Recovering a damaged or confused GRUB installation.

PLOP_to_GRUB.txt
From old BIOS hardware to USB boot and everything
that happens between PLOP and GRUB.

The_Case_of_the_Vanishing_Root_A_GRUB_Investigation.txt
A GRUB investigation where the root filesystem
apparently decided to disappear.

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SYSTEMS & KERNELS

antiX_19.5_Debian_Archive_and_Text_Archaeology.txt
Keeping an old antiX installation alive after its
original Debian repositories have moved on.

Hybrid_AntiX_Kernel_+_SliTaz_Userland.txt
An experiment in mixing an antiX kernel with a
SliTaz userland.

Reconstructing_Kali_Linux_i386_from_a_Minimal_NetHunter_Rootfs.txt
Rebuilding a usable i386 Kali environment from
a surprisingly small starting point.

System_Cleanup_antiX.txt
Cleaning up an old antiX system without turning
the cleanup itself into a new problem.

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NETWORK & ACCESS

antix_19.5_openssh-server.txt
OpenSSH server setup on antiX 19.5.

OpenSSH_Recovery_and_Dropbear_Migration.txt
Replacing Dropbear with OpenSSH when the old setup
has become more trouble than it is worth.

TinyCore_Wi_Fi_Recovery.txt
Getting Wi-Fi back on a TinyCore installation.

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TTY

TTY_Keyboard_Layouts_Without_X.txt
Keyboard layouts in a text-only environment.
No X. No desktop. Just the console doing its job.

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There is no master plan here.

There are only machines, broken assumptions,
old software and the occasional useful discovery.

Read the notes.
Keep what works.
Ignore what doesn't.

IF YOU CAME TO READ, STAY A WHILE.