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* Add hardware diagnostics tools and rescue guide sectionCraig Jennings2026-01-181-1/+209
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Packages added: - memtester: userspace memory testing - stress-ng: CPU/memory/IO stress testing - lm_sensors: temperature/fan/voltage monitoring - lshw: detailed hardware inventory - dmidecode: SMBIOS/DMI system information - nvme-cli: NVMe drive management - hdparm: HDD/SSD parameter tuning Rescue guide Section 5 covers: - SMART disk health monitoring - Memory testing with memtester - System stress testing - Temperature monitoring with sensors - Hardware inventory commands - Disk benchmarking - Bad block checking
* Add Windows recovery tools and rescue guide sectionCraig Jennings2026-01-181-1/+228
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Packages added: chntpw, ntfs-3g, dislocker, hivex Rescue guide section 4 covers: - Mounting NTFS partitions (including hibernated) - Reset/blank Windows passwords with chntpw - Unlock disabled accounts, promote to admin - Access BitLocker drives with dislocker - Copy files from non-booting Windows - Edit Windows registry with hivex - Offline malware scanning with ClamAV - Disable Fast Startup from Linux
* Add boot repair tools and rescue guide sectionCraig Jennings2026-01-181-1/+217
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Packages added: os-prober, syslinux, ms-sys Rescue guide section 3 covers: - Chroot into broken system (including ZFS) - Reinstall GRUB (UEFI and Legacy) - Fix UEFI boot entries with efibootmgr - Rebuild initramfs with mkinitcpio - Dual-boot GRUB/Windows with os-prober - Restore Windows MBR with ms-sys - ZFS-specific boot issues (hostid, hooks) - Emergency GRUB command line boot
* Add data recovery tools and rescue guide sectionCraig Jennings2026-01-181-1/+189
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Packages added: ddrescue, testdisk, foremost, sleuthkit, safecopy, smartmontools Rescue guide section 2 covers: - SMART health assessment - ddrescue for cloning failing drives - PhotoRec/TestDisk for file/partition recovery - Foremost for file carving - Filesystem repair (ext4, NTFS, XFS, FAT) - Mounting disk images - Safecopy for very damaged media
* Add rescue tools and ZFS rescue guideCraig Jennings2026-01-181-0/+230
- Add tealdeer, pv, rsync, mbuffer, lsof to ISO packages - Pre-populate tealdeer cache during build for offline tldr - Create RESCUE-GUIDE.txt with comprehensive ZFS recovery section - Copy rescue guide to /root/ on ISO

Mirrored at github.com/cjennings.