Free kernel recovery software for linux

Make CD-ROM Recovery makes a bootable (El Torito) disaster recovery image (CDrec.iso), including backups of the linux system to the same CD-ROM (or CD-RW) if space permits, or to a multi-volume CD-ROM set. Otherwise, the backups can be stored on another local disk, NFS disk or (remote) tape.

After a disaster (disk crash or system intrusion) the system can be booted from the CD-ROM and one can restore the complete system as it was (at the time mkCDrec was run) with the command /etc/recovery/start-restore.sh

Disk cloning (clone-dsk.sh script) allows one to restore a disk to another disk (the destination disk does not have to be of the same size as it calculates the partition layout itself). A thrid script, restore-fs.sh, will restore only one filesystem to a partition of your choice, and the user can choose with which filesystem the partition has to be formatted.

Linux 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels are supported, and if size of the kernel is not too big a boot floppy can be made, otherwise a 2.88 Mb boot floppy will be emulated on CD-ROM.

MkCDrec supports ext2 , ext3, minix, xfs , jfs, reiserfs file systems, LVM and software RAID (multiple devices). Each file system is backed up as a compressed tar archive (including the tar log). The compress program used is the users choice (compress, gzip, bzip2, lzop,...)

But there is more: msdos, fat, vfat and ntfs mounted partitions are recognized and are saved as compressed dumps (on CD, tape, etc.)
The user has the possibility to encrypt all backups with openssl if desired (see the Config.sh configuration file for more information).

To restore your system completely just boot from the first CD-ROM made by mkCDrec and type "/etc/recovery/start-restore.sh " to restore everything from CD. Automatic Disaster Recovery and One Button Disaster Recovery are supported by mkCDrec too.
With the clone-dsk.sh script one can restore selective a disk or partitions to another free disk.

mkCDrec supports IDE (inclusive ATA), SCSI disks, hardware RAID based disks (e.g. Compaq SMART2 Disk Array), LVM and software RAID. With an El-Torito CD-ROM you can boot from an IDE or SCSI based CD-ROM drive on IA32/64, powermac and x86_64 GNU/Linux based computer systems only.

Poisson Media Recovery project can be used to retrieve slightly damaged files from CD-ROM media.

It sequentially mounts and umounts the device, and on each mount it tries to read as many new 512 byte sectors as possible.

I was able to use this tool to save some files from old CDs.

The Kernel-Machine Library is a freely available (released under the GPL) C++ library to promote the use and progress of kernel machines. It is both for academic use and for developing real world applications.
The Kernel-Machine Library draws heavily from features of modern C++ such as template meta-programming to achieve high performance while at the same time offering a comfortable interface.
It enables compile-time selection of specialised algorithms on the basis of data types: for example, the specific case of a SVM in combination with a linear kernel can be computed by a specialised efficient algorithm.
The Kernel-Machine Library has implementations for the following kernel machines and their cited algorithms:
- Support Vector Machine [1, 2, 3]
- Relevance Vector Machine [4]
- Kernel Recursive Least Squares [5]
- Adaptive Sparseness using Jeffreys Prior [6]
- Smooth Relevance Vector Machine [7]
Up till now, the focus has been on regression. The handling of classification and ranking problems is being added.

kexec-chooser is a small utility that makes warm rebooting into new kernels under Debian a bit easier.

Recent Linux kernels support a new feature called kexec. Basically it allows you to load a new kernel image into memory, and then boot into that kernel directory without having to do a full reboot of the machine. This can speed up reboots significantly.

Usage:

kexec -l

will print a list of available kernels.

kexec 2.6.17

will indicate that you want to warm-reboot into the 2.6.17 kernel. Note that this won’t actually reboot your machine. When you reboot via the reboot command, or GNOME’s Shut Down/Reboot dialog, then kexec-chooser will warm-reboot into the kernel you specified.

A tool to take that corrupted Netscape Address Book and get your information out of it. This is a tool to take that corrupted Netscape Address Book and get your information out of it. After the third time my book got corrupted, I gave up trying to fix it by hand and wrote this program. This program attempts to get as much information out of the address book as is possible. But as with all programs of this type, it will always need to change to keep track of the different ways in which the address book can be corrupted. It can output .csv (Comma Separated Values) or .ldi (LDAP Date Interchange Format) files.Dont output .csv files, you will lose all mailing list information.
Enhancements:
- Major bugfixes with handling indexes
- Major bugfixes with handling edits
- Added LDIF support
- Added support for mailling lists

Cmos password recovery tools decrypts password stored in cmos used to access BIOS SETUP.
Works with the following BIOSes:
- ACER/IBM BIOS
- AMI BIOS
- AMI WinBIOS 2.5
- Award 4.5x/4.6x/6.0
- Compaq (1992)
- Compaq (New version)
- IBM (PS/2, Activa, Thinkpad)
- Packard Bell
- Phoenix 1.00.09.AC0 (1994), a486 1.03, 1.04, 1.10 A03, 4.05 rev 1.02.943, 4.06 rev 1.13.1107
- Phoenix 4 release 6 (User)
- Gateway Solo - Phoenix 4.0 release 6
- Toshiba
- Zenith AMI
With CmosPwd, you can also backup, restore and erase/kill cmos.
AWARD 4.50 have a backdoor, a generic password : AWARD_SW SOYO motherboard have "SY_MB" as master password for Award 4.51. CmosPwd give equivalent passwords for Award BIOS, not original one.
CmosPwd works and compiles under:
- Dos-Win9x,
- Windows NT/W2K/XP/2003,
- Linux,
- FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Enhancements:
- This version adds support for the VAIO EEPROM and Samsung P25 CMOS.