[ale] Favorite diag bootable images

[Ken Cochran]

Ok, well I've been trying to make a bootable USB flash drive
with/of it, finally did it with their Windows-based install
tool & the thing won't boot (e.g. get past grub) due to lack
of a kernel (what?).  Haven't been able to make a bootable
USB at all with OSX, dunno what kinda PEBKAC...

What I'm trying to do is get an old Vista (yeah, I know,
ewww) box to boot & it's complaining about some kind of
missing /boot/-something- file & naturally (so far) there's
no OS install media (one of my chief complaints against MS -
no media & even if you DO manage to find it, it wipes out
*everything* if you use it).

SystemRescueCD looks like a Nice Tool to have in my box but
so far I'm having no luck getting it to work.  I've long used
(for example) gparted with no (or at least minimal) issues.
Sorry for off-topicness.

-k

> To: ale at ale.org
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 10:16:26 -0400
> Subject: Re: [ale] Favorite diag bootable images
> From: Jeff Hubbs via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> Reply-To: Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net>,
>         Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>
> SystemRescueCD.
>
> On 9/27/18 10:10 AM, Ken Cochran via Ale wrote:
> > Hey ALE, wonder what's favorite or highly recommended
> > these days wrt USB-bootable PC diagnostic/repair toolkits.
> > Keeping on-topic, best I can tell, what I've seen (e.g. gparted)
> > is Linux-based.  Guess that would stand to reason - should be
> > able to at least "see" all hardware & it's immune to the (ahem)
> > "sicknesses" of (ahem) other OSes.  Thanks, -Ken