I have a HP Pavilion lap top system which my wife was using to run Windows 11 and it is presently failing to boot but fortunately for this list, that is not what I am really here to post about. What I think I need is a bootable version of linux which is similar in behavior to the many Raspberry Pi images available that can fit on a SSD card. Usually, they are compressed and will fill the SSD card one has written the image to so they are not your standard iso live CD's but one uses it as a self-contained Linux system. What I want to do is keep Windows 11 on the SSD but get the laptop capable of booting off of a bootable usb drive if it is present. If not, it goes ahead and boots Windows. This will probably require changing the BIOS settings to turn off secureboot and have usb be the first boot candidate tried. Right now, for this discussion, I am asking if there is such an image for a 64-bit system. If it talks, that's the icing on the cake but if not, I still might be able to use it via ssh from a system that does talk. I want to use this instance of Linux to try to fix the problem the dead box is having but also use Linux to backup the box since Windows does not have a native backup program. This also gives me yet another portable Linux box as if I needed one. As far as this list is concerned, is there something like this out there and does it talk? Another reason why I have not simply tried to use a debian installation image is frankly because there is a slight chance of accidentally installing it on the SSD where Windows 11 currently lives so I want to avoid that if possible. The idea is to do no more harm than has already been done. From what I read based on the error screen, the problem is fixable but if I write to the wrong device, that pretty well blows things up so I am playing it safe if possible. One person mentioned grml with clonzilla which sounds like a good thing but at this stage, I am open to any suggestion. Don't forget that it's a laptop so one can't just pop drives and memory cards in and out like one should be able to do in a desktop system so I am trying to avoid doing that unless the SSD proves to be bad. Thanks. Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list