Booting on dvd drive
using 11.04

As a BSD guy, I prefer dump/restore.
I'd appreciate if it's added to the live CD.
Thanks.

When attempting to boot from the Rescue CD, I get the following:

ISOLINUX 3.63 Debian-2008-07-15 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 H. Peter Anvin
Unknown keyword in configuration file.
Unknown keyword in configuration file.
boot:

Now, this seems like a rather user-unfriendly interface, so I assume this is not the way it is supposed to boot. Attempting to check the configuration file in the isolinux folder on the CD resulted in input/output errors. I checked the integrity of the CD with Disk Utility, and it seems happy with the disc. Any ideas?

I just tried to install ubuntu-rescue-remix-tools in karmic/amd64. No candidate version found for partimage. Not in amd64.

I created a bootable version of rescue remix on a usb stick to try and recover data from a faile hard drive. It got all the way to the point of telling me I could execute command line functions and then I got an error saying the it couldn't find the driver for the wireless "b43/ucode5.fw. The next instruction was to go to "http:/linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware" and download version 4 firmware. I reinstalled my working hard drive and went to the site. There I found instructions of how to download and install the firmware and driver. The problem is that I don't know how to install them into the live version on the usb stick.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I've lost many, many photos of my kids and tons of music, address books, and other important data on my old hard drive and would love to get even a little bit of it back.

Josh

I think this tool will be more accessible when an introduction page (with references to the rescue tools and their help) is made and also lynx or links is installed as a simple text based browser for searching some info on the internet. Especially info you need for rescuing a computer.

When booted up some text occurs enter rescuehelp (or any other command) to get more documentation.

Please add the package "lvm2" to the image. A _real_ rescue needs that ;-)

(ok it's installable during rescue via apt-get install - but not every to-be-rescued machine has internet connection...)

Thanks
Christian

I used the command line instructions on making a bootable 8.10 usb
zcat .gz to entire drive /dev/sdb so I wouldn't need to put a mbr on it
tried to boot from it but it gives error message
is there something I'm forgetting to do?

I've burned two disks from the 8.10 iso (http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/) using Sonic. I've tried booting both CDs on two different computers. In both cases the computer failed to boot from the CD and booted into XP. The BIOS on both computers is set to boot from CD first.

I have a XP installation disk which I have no problem booting from, so the computer/BIOS/drive are not the problem here. Is there some other non-obvious thing I need to do to be able to boot from the Rescue Remix?

Not a big deal at all, and were it a wiki I'd have fixed it myself, but:

cat /root/CheatSheet.txt | less

?? why not just

less /root/CheatSheet.txt