[gentoo-hardened] Slightly OT. Boot disk to leave in the server on a coloco box

[Ed W]

I am just building a box for a coloco deal at the moment and it appears 
that the netboot of this Dell server is not working quite correctly.  I 
am concerned about the usual stupid mistakes which leave the system 
non-bootable and would like to burn a CD and leave it in the CD tray 
with the bios set to boot from the HD normally.  I should then hopefully 
have serial port access to the machine and could change the bios to boot 
from the CD if ever desperate.

Can anyone recommend a small ready built distro, or something which 
could be easily customised just to use as a rescue distro, with serial 
access built in, that can mount my disks and auto start an SSH server?  
I think it will probably have to be customised anyway in order to insert 
a static IP address so that I can access the machine correctly.

Any suggestions on something which is suitable and quick to get up and 
running?  I have some reasonable experience running linux machines, but 
very little experience figuring out how to build a boot CD.

Cheers

Ed W


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