Download Ultimate Boot CD 5.0 ​​RC1

The developers behind Ultimate Boot CD have now released the first release candidate after twelve beta releases. Ultimate Boot CD is a very complete collection of open source and freeware programs intended for finding and solving mainly hardware problems. The download is in iso format, is offered as an ftp and http download and is 270MB in size. Below is the full overview of changes since version 5.0 beta 12:

Addition/Changes:

• Updated Grub4Dos v0.4.4 2009-10-16
• Removed /ubcd/boot/grub4dos/grub.exe
• Added /boot/grub/grldr and /boot/grub/menu.lst
• Updated Syslinux v3.83
• Updated MEMDISK (part of Syslinux): fixes booting problems with floppy images on Thinkpads
• Add “raw” parameter to MEMDISK when booting FreeDOS: info
• Added MEMDISK ISO: info
• Recompiled econfig.c32 to be compatible with Syslinux 3.83: info
• Fixed paths to Parted Magic in hdd\cloning.cfg, hdd\partmgmt.cfg and hdd\recovery.cfg.
• Help text for the Parted Magic menu shows list of included applications (not all of them)
• Updated syslinux config files to new preferred Syslinux syntax (BOOT/COM32/INITRD/LINUX/UI) + menu items alphabetically sorted
• Changed syslinux2grub4dos.sed so it understands the new preferred Syslinux syntax
• Improvements in bash scripts for running syslinux2grub4dos.sh (sorts menu items alphabetically), avira.sh, clamav.sh, fprot.sh.
• Added Win32 batch files for running syslinux2grub4dos.cmd, avira.cmd, clamav.cmd, fprot.cmd.
• Added needed Windows ports of Linux utilities for Win32 batch files
• Added 7-Zip v9.07 beta (xz support needed for Parted Magic modules)
• ubcd2iso.cmd now defaults to creating the ISO image in the root directory when the output path is not supplied. It also displays the full path of the output file upon completion.
• Added DBAN, Offline NT Password & Registry Editor and g4u iso (/ubcd/images/*.iso.gz)
• Removed /ubcd/boot/offline directory
• Removed /ubcd/boot/dban direcotry
• Removed /ubcd/boot/g4u.igz
• Renamed all /ubcd/images/*.igz to /ubcd/images/*.img.gz (floppy images)
• Updated AVIRA AntiVir Rescue System v3.6.9-20091102185524
• Updated Gujin v2.6
• Updated HDDerase v4.0
• Updated memtest86+ v4.0 (new location: /ubcd/boot/memtest86p/memtest86p.bin)
• Updated memtest86 v3.5 (new location: /ubcd/boot/memtest86/memtest86.bin)
• Updated NSSI v0.60.38 (does use the FreeDOS image now, not PC-DOS)
• Updated Parted Magic v4.6 (build: 1 Nov) and F-prot (scanner + definitions), XFprot v2.2 and clamav-definitions
• Updated Partition Saving to v3.71
• Updated Samsung Disk Manager to v10.42
• Updated Samsung ES Tool v3.00g
• Updated Super Grub Disk v0.9799
• Added Super Grub2 Disk v1.21
• Added Plop v5.0.4
• Added Hardware Detection tool v0.35-pre2
• Added boot.kernel.org (BKO) (/ubcd/boot/bko/gpxe.lkrn)
• Added netboot.me (/ubcd/boot/netbootme/netbootme.lkrn)
• Added Parted Magic modules: PCcmoscleaner, PCdiskEraser, PCloginnow and PCregedit
• Moved directory /ubcd/boot/cpustres/ to /ubcd/boot/cpustress/