diff --git a/sys-boot/customrescuecd-x86_64-grub/customrescuecd-x86_64-grub-0.1.ebuild b/sys-boot/customrescuecd-x86_64-grub/customrescuecd-x86_64-grub-0.1.ebuild
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+++ b/sys-boot/customrescuecd-x86_64-grub/customrescuecd-x86_64-grub-0.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+DESCRIPTION="Grub menu entries for the .iso image of customrescuecd"
+HOMEPAGE="https://sourceforge.net/projects/customrescuecd/"
+SRC_URI=""
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT=0
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+
+S=${WORKDIR}
+
+RDEPEND="app-admin/customrescuecd-x86_64
+	sys-boot/grub"
+
+src_install() {
+	exeinto /etc/grub.d
+	newexe "${FILESDIR}"/customrescuecd.grub 39_customrescuecd
+
+	insinto /etc/default
+	newins "${FILESDIR}"/customrescuecd.default customrescuecd
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	elog "To add the menu entries for customrescuecd to grub, you should now run"
+	elog "	grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg"
+	elog "You can set custom bootoptions in /etc/default/customrescuecd"
+}
diff --git a/sys-boot/customrescuecd-x86_64-grub/files/customrescuecd.default b/sys-boot/customrescuecd-x86_64-grub/files/customrescuecd.default
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+++ b/sys-boot/customrescuecd-x86_64-grub/files/customrescuecd.default
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+Here you can set custom bootoptions for the CustomRescueCD
+#
+# You can add for example in a space separated list:
+#  copytoram: causes the iso file to be fully loaded into memory
+#           this requires 1.5GB of memory to cache everything
+
+CRCD_BOOTOPTIONS=""
diff --git a/sys-boot/customrescuecd-x86_64-grub/files/customrescuecd.grub b/sys-boot/customrescuecd-x86_64-grub/files/customrescuecd.grub
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+++ b/sys-boot/customrescuecd-x86_64-grub/files/customrescuecd.grub
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+#!/bin/sh
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+. /usr/share/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib
+
+if [ -r /etc/default/customrescuecd ] ; then
+  . /etc/default/customrescuecd
+fi
+
+# crcd = path of newest link to iso of customrescuecd, created by the ebuild
+#        of customrescuecd-x86_64
+
+crcd="/usr/share/systemrescuecd/systemrescuecd-x86_64-newest.iso"
+
+longname="CustomRescueCD"
+bootops=")"
+
+if [ ! -z "${CRCD_BOOTOPTIONS}" ]; then
+	bootops=" with bootoptions)"
+fi
+
+if [ -f "${crcd}" ]; then
+
+	device=$(${grub_probe} --target=device "${crcd}")
+	path=$(make_system_path_relative_to_its_root "${crcd}")
+	grub_string=$(prepare_grub_to_access_device "${device}" | grub_add_tab | grub_add_tab)
+
+	gettext_printf "Found %s on %s\n" "${longname}" "${device}" >&2
+	onstr=$(gettext_printf "(on %s)" "${device}")
+
+	cat << EOF
+submenu "${longname}" --class submenu {
+	menuentry "${longname} (64bit ${bootops}" --class rescue {
+${grub_string}
+		set isofile=${path}
+		loopback loop \${isofile}
+		linux (loop)/boot/x86_64/customrescue64 ${CRCD_BOOTOPTIONS} customisobasedir=customresccd customisolabel=CRC64 vga=791 net.ifnames=0
+	}
+}
+EOF
+
+fi
diff --git a/sys-boot/customrescuecd-x86_64-grub/metadata.xml b/sys-boot/customrescuecd-x86_64-grub/metadata.xml
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+++ b/sys-boot/customrescuecd-x86_64-grub/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>gentoobugs@milaw.biz</email>
+		<name>Michael Lange</name>
+		<description>Accepts only mails from Gentoo's Bugzilla</description>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>mgorny@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Michał Górny</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription>
+		This package adds menu entries in GRUB for the SystemRescueCD. You can
+		add custom bootoptions for SystemRescueCD in a special config file.
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>