[ale] Favorite diag bootable images

[A. P. Garcia]

Did you Google free utilities to turn a bootable CD into a bootable USB
drive?

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 7:00 PM Ken Cochran via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> 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
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