LiPE

Boot the temporary Linux OS based Tiny Core Linux to a VPS for easy maintenance, backup and reinstallation!

How To

Just run the command with root privileges.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/U2FsdGVkX1/LiPE/main/LiPE.sh | bash

Then sit and relax, connect to your server after about 3 minutes.

# The default password is 12345678
ssh tc@your-server-ip

# You can directly use cfdisk to modify your partition
lsblk
sudo cfdisk /dev/vda

Since it booted only once, you can just restart your VPS to rollback it when the server is not reachable.

Kernel Parameters

If you want to know more parameters, open the /boot/grub/custom.cfg file (it would be "grub2" instead of "grub" in some Linux distro)

menuentry 'LiPE' {
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root xxxxxxx
  linux /boot/vmlinuz-lipe password=12345678
  initrd /boot/initrd-lipe.gz
}

You can change the LiPE default password

If your VPS is not reachable, you can also use hostip, netmask, gateway, nameserver parameters, like this…

menuentry 'LiPE' {
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root xxxxxxx
  linux /boot/vmlinuz-lipe password=123456abc hostip=156.251.130.42 netmask=255.255.255.128 gateway=156.251.130.1 nameserver=8.8.8.8
  initrd /boot/initrd-lipe.gz
}

Uninstall

Delete the following files

rm -rf /boot/vmlinuz-lipe /boot/initrd-lipe.gz /boot/grub/custom.cfg