WMI Rescue

About

WMI Rescue is a small Linux image based on the Debian distribution.

Default root password: wmi

Sources

• https://git.wmi.amu.edu.pl/wmirescue/wmirescue

Archival sources

• https://github.com/Zawoor1/wmirescue
• https://github.com/ruanda/wmirescue

Contact

• rescue@wmi.amu.edu.pl

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Changelog

• Version 26.03
  • Based on Debian Trixie 13.4
  • Kernel: 6.18.15-1 (from trixie-backports)
  • Due to changes in Linux 6.16+ some netboot implementations need to append rootfstype=squashfs to the kernel command line
• Version 26.02
  • Kernel: 6.18.5-1 (from trixie-backports)
  • Due to changes in Linux 6.16+ some netboot implementations need to append rootfstype=squashfs to the kernel command line
• Version 25.12
  • Based on Debian Trixie 13.2
  • Kernel: 6.17.8-1 (from trixie-backports)
  • memtest upgraded to memtest86+ 8.00
  • Switched pci.ids lists to the upstream
  • Due to changes in Linux 6.16+ some netboot implementations need to append rootfstype=squashfs to the kernel command line
• Version 25.11
  • Based on Debian Trixie 13.2
  • Kernel: 6.12.57-1
  • Switched from xz to zstd in SquashFS which resulted in faster boot times
• Version 25.09
  • Based on Debian Trixie 13.1
  • Kernel: 6.12.43-1
  • Fixed ssh-session-cleanup.service to properly disconnect sessions at shutdown/reboot
• Version 25.08
  • Based on Debian Trixie 13.0
  • Kernel: 6.12.41-1
• Version 25.05
  • Based on Debian Bookworm 12.10
  • Kernel: 6.12.22-1 (from bookworm-backports)
• Version 25.01
  • Based on Debian Bookworm 12.9
  • Kernel: 6.10.11-1 (from bookworm-backports)
  • memtest upgraded to memtest86+ 7.20
• Version 24.09
  • Based on Debian Bookworm 12.7
  • Kernel: 6.10.6-1 (from bookworm-backports)
  • New packages: xfsdump
  • Removed packages: ipxe (obsolete on mostly EFI sytems)
• Version 24.08
  • Based on Debian Bookworm 12.6
  • Kernel: 6.9.7-1 (from bookworm-backports)
• Version 24.07
  • Based on Debian Bookworm 12.6
  • Kernel: 6.7.12-1 (from bookworm-backports)
• Version 24.02
  • Based on Debian Bookworm 12.5
  • Kernel: 6.5.10-1 (from bookworm-backports)
  • memtest upgraded to memtest86+ 7.0
• Version 23.10
  • Based on Debian Bookworm
  • Kernel: 6.4.4-3 (from bookworm-backports)
  • Fixed booting on BIOS (CSM) hardware
• Version 23.06rc1
  • Based on Debian Bookworm
  • Kernel: 6.1.0-9
  • zstd is now used instead of gzip where possible
  • systemd-resolved now correctly uses fallback DNS servers instead of clobbering DHCP-provided ones
  • memtest upgraded to memtest86+ 6.20
  • New packages: nvme-cli, zstd
  • Removed packages: hddtemp (removed from Debian)
• Version 21.11
  • Based on Debian Bullseye
  • Kernel: 5.14.0-0.bpo.2
• Version 20.02
  • Kernel: 4.19.0-8
  • New packages: ca-certificates
• Version 19.08
  • Based on Debian Buster
  • Kernel: 4.19.0-5
  • New packages: efibootmgr, grub-efi-amd64-bin, grub-pc, ipxe, mtools, nfs-common, pv, xfsprogs, zfsutils-linux
  • ISO images can now boot in EFI mode
  • GRUB2 is used instead of ISOLINUX
• Version 17.07
  • Based on Debian Stretch
  • Kernel: 4.9.0
  • Removed packages: gnupg, iptables
  • New packages: dosfstools, gdisk, lzip, tcpdump, zfs-dkms
• Version 17.02
  • Kernel: 4.9.0-0.bpo.1
• Version 16.08
  • Based on Debian Jessie
  • Kernel: 4.6.0-0.bpo.1
  • Dropped architectures: i386
  • Removed packages: gdisk
• Version 15.03
  • Kernel: 3.16.0-0.bpo.4
  • New packages: acpi-support-base
• Version 14.04
  • Kernel: 3.13-0.bpo.1 (fixed #1877)
• Version 13.09
  • Update firmware images (fixed #1596)
  • Add some usefull information to /etc/issue (fixed #1589)
• Version 13.06
  • Based on Debian Wheezy
  • Kernel: 3.2.0-4
  • New packages: gddrescue, ifenslave-2.6
  • Removed packages: ddrescue
• Version 13.01
  • Kernel: 3.2.0-0.bpo.4
  • New packages: lsof, debootstrap
  • Support for reconfiguration without recompressing SquashFS rootfs (fixed #872)
  • Set common ssh host keys for all architectures and versions (fixed #873)
  • ISO images are postprocessed with isohybrid script (fixed #867)
  • Add boot menu (fixed #869)
  • Set default hostname (fixed #871)
• Version 12.12
  • New packages: binutils, strace
  • Set kernel.panic = 5 and kernel.panic_on_oops = 1
• Version 12.10
  • Initial version based on Debian Squeeze
  • Kernel: 3.2.0-0.bpo.3
  • Packages: acl, attr, bash-completion, bind9-host, binutils, bridge-utils, bsdmainutils, ddrescue, dhcpcd, dmidecode, ethtool, file, hddtemp, hdparm, ifupdown, iproute, iptables, iputils-ping, less, lvm2, mdadm, module-init-tools, mtr-tiny, netcat-traditional, net-tools, ntfs-3g, parted, pciutils, procps, psmisc, rsync, screen, smartmontools, ssh, strace, tar, telnet, traceroute, tree, usbutils, vim, vlan, wget, xz-utils