BG-Rescue Linux is a Busybox and uClibc-based rescue system with kernel 2.4.26 which supports the NTFS 2.1.6b driver. It is loaded either from two floppy disks or from one 2.8MB El Torito CD. The system runs entirely in RAM.

BG-Rescue Linux supports a wide range of hardware and filesystems, and can serve as a full backup/restore system for MS Windows systems that use FAT12, FAT16, or FAT32. It also includes bzip2, cabextract, cmdftp, cramfs, dosfstools, e2fsprogs, gpart, lilo, loadlin, lphdisk, mdadm, ms-sys, ntfsprogs, pcmcia-cardmgr, progsreiserfs, reiserfsck, smbclient, syslinux, umsdos-utils, and zip. There is support for automatically loading the F-Prot antivirus program from CD-ROM.

Supported Hardware:

Block Devices:
· IDE/ATAPI Disk/CD-Rom/Floppy/Tape Support
· Normal Floppy Disk Support
· Compaq SMART2 / Smart Array 5xxx
· Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI Raid Controller
· Software RAID-0/1/4/5/Linear and LVM Support
· Loopback device
· Compressed Loop Image (cloop)
· USB Mass Storage support (with PocketBoy patch)

Network Devices:
· 3c509/3c529 (MCA)/3c579 "Etherlink III"
· 3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) "Vortex/Boomerang"
· AMD LANCE and PCnet (AT1500, NE2100)
· AMD PCnet32 PCI Ethernet
· DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI
· EtherExpressPro/100 (eepro100, original Becker driver)
· Myson MTD 8xx PCI Ethernet
· NE2000 / NE1000 ISA-Cards (e.g. RealTek RTL-8019)
· NE2000 PCI and clones (e.g. RealTek RTL-8029)
· nForce Ethernet
· PLIP - Parallel Link cable
· RealTek RTL-8139 C+ PCI Fast Ethernet
· RealTek RTL-8139 PCI Fast Ethernet with old 8129/8130 and uncommon RTL-8139 rev. K
· SIS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet
· TI ThunderLAN
· VIA Rhine
· Winbond W89c840 Ethernet
· TCP/IP-Networking
· USB Network Devices:
· ASIX AX88172 based ethernet device
· CATC NetMate based ethernet
· Communication Class Ethernet device
· KLSI KL5USB101 based ethernet
· Pegasus/Pegasus-II based ethernet
· Realtek RTL8150 based ethernet device
· USB-to-USB Networking Cables, Linux PDAs
· PCMCIA Network Devices:
· PCMCIA NE2000-Clones
· PCMCIA serial device
· Xircom 16-bit PCMCIA support

USB-Support:
· Host Controller Drivers: EHCI HCD (USB 2.0), OHCI, UHCI
· Preliminary USB Device Filesystem
· HIDBP Keyboard (basic)
· USB Mass Storage support (with PocketBoy patch)
· USB Network Devices (see above)

Console:
· VGA Text console
· VESA VGA graphics console 8bit

BUS / Ports:
· PCI / ISA Bus
· PCMCIA / Cardbus (network devices: see above)
· Serial port (standard / generic)
· Parallel Port
· Parallel Printer
· Keyboard support (generic / USB)

· Advanced Power Management BIOS Support
· Plug and Play Support / ISAPNP Support

What's New in This Release:

· ntfs-3g 1.2310 was added, which is a much more stable ntfs read-write driver than ntfsmount with fewer dependencies.
· Therefore, ntfsmount was removed, along with the now unneeded FUSE userspace tools.
· Busybox was updated to 1.9.2 and e2fsprogs was updated to 1.40.7.
· linld.com 0.97, dd_rescue 1.14, and regedit from regutils 0.10 were added.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Updated the linux kernel 2.4, busybox and some of the integrated programs to the latest versions.

· Upgraded lrzip to the latest version 0.551 which compiles again without patching thanks to Con Kolivas.

· Changed the autorun file to prevent the readme file to open on windows systems. Let's hope the nice icon will still work.

· And by the way ... HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

· Updated busybox to 1.18.1 (with losetup-2.4, bzip2, cpio, hush patches)
· Updated dosfstools to 3.0.11
· Updated e2fsprogs to 1.41.14
· Updated linux kernel to 2.4.37.11
· Updated lrzip to 0.551