This gist contains notes on what to do when needing to recover from a disk failure. A good tool to use is the SystemRescueCd live image which includes all the useful tools for performing recovery operations.
If for whatever reason you can't boot from a USB disk with the BIOS, then you can still use grub. Simply do
set root=(hd1)
| *~ | |
| # Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files | |
| __pycache__/ | |
| *.py[cod] | |
| # C extensions | |
| *.so | |
| # Distribution / packaging |
| """USBTMC pipe script | |
| This script is used to pipe commands and queries to and from a USBTMC | |
| device and is intended to be run using the following socat command:: | |
| socat tcp-listen:5025,fork,reuseaddr,crnl,tcpwrap=script\ | |
| EXEC:"python usbtmc_pipe.py",su-d=pi,pty,echo=0 | |
| """ |
| """paultrap.py - Provides a simple object for calculating stability | |
| boundaries for a linear Paul trap. | |
| This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
| it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
| the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at | |
| your option) any later version. | |
| This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but | |
| WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
Locations for Gnome settings:
~/.gconf
~/.local/share/gnome-shell
~/.config/dconf
Probably don't want to copy over ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/application_state.