Ivrescue is a Linux rescue CD ideal for booting unbootable systems caused by corrupted filesystems. It is a small and compact software designed to ensure quick and efficient data recovery.
Ivrescue is a Linux rescue CD designed to help users boot systems that have become unbootable due to filesystem corruption or other issues. One of its unique features is that everything is loaded into RAM, which means that once the machine has booted, the CD can be removed from the drive.
This software is perfect for users who require a minimalist boot floppy or a full-featured rescue CD. Ivrescue is ideal for CDs where space is tight, such as business card CDs. The package can be added to a CD with as little as 7Mb of spare space, giving users a rescue CD they can carry in their wallet.
While there are leaner ways of creating a rescue CD, such as using BusyBox or uClibc, those options require more effort and provide fewer features due to space-saving measures. The goal of Ivrescue is to provide users with a feature-rich rescue disk that can be created quickly, without needing any source code other than the Linux kernel source.
To compile Ivrescue, users will need several software packages, including ImageMagick, dosfstools, SysLinux (at least v2.00), bzip2, losetup, netcat (nc), ash, isapnptools, Pipe Viewer (pv), and the tar.bz2 of a 2.4.x Linux kernel. Additionally, users will need the usual GNU/Linux build environment.
The latest version of Ivrescue, 2.0, has upgraded to kernel 2.4.25 and includes a sample bochsrc for testing with Bochs. Overall, Ivrescue is a powerful tool for Linux users in need of a fast and efficient rescue CD.
This software is perfect for users who require a minimalist boot floppy or a full-featured rescue CD. Ivrescue is ideal for CDs where space is tight, such as business card CDs. The package can be added to a CD with as little as 7Mb of spare space, giving users a rescue CD they can carry in their wallet.
While there are leaner ways of creating a rescue CD, such as using BusyBox or uClibc, those options require more effort and provide fewer features due to space-saving measures. The goal of Ivrescue is to provide users with a feature-rich rescue disk that can be created quickly, without needing any source code other than the Linux kernel source.
To compile Ivrescue, users will need several software packages, including ImageMagick, dosfstools, SysLinux (at least v2.00), bzip2, losetup, netcat (nc), ash, isapnptools, Pipe Viewer (pv), and the tar.bz2 of a 2.4.x Linux kernel. Additionally, users will need the usual GNU/Linux build environment.
The latest version of Ivrescue, 2.0, has upgraded to kernel 2.4.25 and includes a sample bochsrc for testing with Bochs. Overall, Ivrescue is a powerful tool for Linux users in need of a fast and efficient rescue CD.
What's New
Version 1.1.7: N/A