

Just follow the prompts, and presto! Instant live SystemRescue USB. You can run this either in an X terminal or from the console. Plug in your USB stick, and if your system auto-mounts it then you need to unmount it. You need the exec option so you can run the USB creator script. Sudo mount -o loop,exec systemrescuecd-x86-2.3.1.iso temp/ After downloading the CD image, create a temporary directory and mount the image with the loopback device: All you need are a USB drive that holds at least 512 MB, and the latest SystemRescue CD image. The fine SystemRescue folks have made it easy to create a bootable SystemRescue USB stick by adding a script to the CD image that does all the work for you.

This varies on different machines as motherboard manufacturers love to monkey with this stuff, so I’m afraid you’re on your own for finding out what your systems support. Then you get a menu for picking your boot device without having to enter the BIOS configuration. Just plug in your boot media, power up your machine, and then press the appropriate hotkey, which is usually an F key. Some BIOS have a really nice feature: a boot device picker. Any PC built after 2001 should have this capability, though the older ones don’t always work. The one roadblock with live USBs is your system BIOS must support booting from USB devices. (Unless you use a CD/DVD-RW, but these are not always reliable.) A bootable SystemRescue USB stick is fast, and you can copy files to it. Live Linux CD/DVDs are easy and good, but they have two drawbacks: they are slow, and they are not writable.
SYSTEMRESCUECD BOOT USB HOW TO
Today we will learn how to create a SystemRescue live USB stick, and recover data from failing drives. It can rescue Linux, Unix, Mac, and Windows systems, and recover data from almost any media. The Gentoo-based SystemRescue CD/USB is one of the very best rescue distros, packing amazing functionality into a 350MB image.
