SystemRescue 8.0

If you’re as adventurous with your installations as Mayank Sharma, then you too would want to keep a copy of this distro handy…

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IN BRIEF

One of the oldest distributions that’s designed to equip system admins with a variety of tools and utilities to help repair and rescue their Linux and Windows installations. The distro will work on any 64-bit machine and while it’s meant to be used as a Live CD, it can also be anchored to the hard disk for easier access.

One of the most popular rescue distros, the project has undergone several major changes of late. The earlier Gentoo-based edition of the distro had a compressive boot menu, which was dropped when the distro rebased to Arch. It’s since added several options to the boot menu that help address a range of use cases and rescue scenarios.

There are the usual options that you also get on other distros, such as the option to copy the entire system to RAM, another to boot and verify the checksum, and one to use nomodeset to help resolve display issues. The first interesting option is the nofirewall parameter that disables the