DownloadSystemRescue is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the hard disk partitions.
It comes with a lot of software such as disk management tools (parted, partimage, fsarchiver, filesystem tools, ...), network administration programs and simple text editors . It can be used for both Linux and windows computers, and on desktops as well as servers.
This rescue system requires no installation as it can be booted from a CD/DVD drive, and USB stick, or from the network using PXE. But it can be installed on the hard disk if you wish. It comes with up to date kernels to provide support for recent hardware and also for all important file systems (ext2/ext3/ext4, xfs, btrfs, ntfs, reiserfs, vfat), as well as network filesystems (samba and nfs).
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Wonderfully useful project! Has helped me recover so many machines... However, since it's only every few years I need to use it, I keep forgetting one extremely important detail -- and I think the project needs to document this for users in BIG RED letters: ** 'chroot' WILL NOT WORK unless you name the volume of the USB key to which SystemRescue is installed a very specific name, being the version of SystemRescue itself, for example (as of May/June 2024) RESCUE1101 If you install to a USB key without setting the volume name, this image will not work!
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I use it a lot. As a standalone I can use it to check setting on many of Linux machines when they act up. Necessary tool for anyone using PCs or Laptops.
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I have been happily using systemrescue 4.08 for years I decided to upgrade and make a rescue stick with a separate partition for my own use. I am working on a Mint-20.2 system on an HP Pavilion g4 laptop. I downloaded systemrescue-9.01-amd64.iso and two hash files and a sig file from the systemrescue site. I checked the two hash numbers and the signature, all OK. I followed the directions in the "Installing systemrescue on a usb stick" page, under "Manual installation on Linux for booting in UEFI mode". The USB stick is 4G. I used gparted to create a MSDOS MBR. I created the first partition as 2G, FAT32, label=RESCUE901. I set the boot and lba flags. I created a second partition, the rest of the drive, ext4, label=RESCUEWORK. I opened systemrescue-9.01-amd64.iso using "Disk Image Mounter". I selected everything in the root directory (six directories) and dragged them into the root of the stick. I ejected the stick, then tried to boot it. The boot process hung with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner of a blank screen. By the way, I used usbimager to create the same physical USB stick and it works fine. It's a pity the IOS partition consumes all of the stick. If it left room for a second partition the problem would be solved. I thought maybe gparted could shrink the ISO partition, but it does not not me try. I am stuck at this point. Anyone now what I have to do?
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Looks like a nice and very versatile tool! Please update nwipe, as the included 0.21 version has some severe known issues that are resolved in the current version. Thanks!
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Still having trouble using SysRescue CD v4.9.5 and even earlier 4.4.0 booting an old AMD K6 1Ghz 32 bit machine. Tried boot option edd=off still hangs right after "Loading initram.igz" Funny a much older version of SysResCD v 1.58 seems to work fine Why is this ? Thanks