How do you create or boot ShredOS?

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Poll: In order to get an idea about what program or method is used to create a bootable ShredOS flash drive or boot ShredOS via other means.

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If you use some other method not listed, please let us know. Thanks.

[Firminator]

LinuxMint has a build-in utility called MintStick ( https://github.com/linuxmint/mintstick ) which is reliable, non-bloated, not Electron-based (like Etcher), and has a sha256 checksum and GPG verification.
It handles both the ISO or USB IMG provided by ShredOS and I haven't had an issue ever with it or any other ISO or IMG.
For Windows I recommend Rufus when putting any one image on a flash drive. Pete is an expert in his field. The history of Rufus speaks for itself. Regular releases with bugfixes (fixing Windows bugs handling USB!) and expert knowledge since 11 years is hard to top.
Ventoy for Multi-images.

[tlschenkjr]

We use ShredOS in multiple ways including, dd to USB flash drive on LInux, creating a custom ISO and burning to CD, booting ShredOS from the PXE server that is part of RedHat Satellite. The USB flash drive is used for wiping desktops, laptops, and one in a while, a rackmount server. Boot from PXE is used for our server farm (10,000 plus rackmount servers and blade servers) and for virtual machines. The reason why we customize ShredOS is because the download versions don't properly recognize drives in some of our HP servers (missing kernel menuconfig option) and to add support for log shipping via SFTP instead of lftp or tftp (both of which our security team frown upon) to the nwipe_launcher script..

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And also 96bb5cb. More to follow.

[Firminator]

More hardware support is very much appreciated.
Without having done any research on this particular driver I'm hopeful that the addition of "CONFIG_SCSI_MPI3MR=y" will enhance detection and support for a bunch of (newer?) RAID controllers similarly to what adding MPT2 and MEGARAID drivers has achieved in the past.

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@Firminator committed 3c9a12c

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These controllers are supported by the mpi3mr driver:

Manufacturer	Model	Adapter type
Broadcom Ltd	SAS 4116	Tri-Mode RAID Adapter
Broadcom Ltd	9670W-16i 24G PCIe 4.0	Tri-Mode RAID Adapter
Broadcom Ltd	9670-24i 24G PCIe 4.0	Tri-Mode RAID Adapter
Broadcom Ltd	9660-16i 24G PCIe 4.0	Tri-Mode RAID Adapter
Broadcom Ltd	9620-16i 24G PCIe 4.0	Tri-Mode RAID Adapter
Broadcom Ltd	9600-24i 24G PCIe 4.0	Tri-Mode RAID Adapter
Broadcom Ltd	9600-16i 24G PCIe 4.0	Tri-Mode RAID Adapter
Broadcom Ltd	9600W-16e 24G PCIe 4.0	Tri-Mode RAID Adapter
Broadcom Ltd	9600-16e 24G PCIe 4.0	Tri-Mode RAID Adapter
Broadcom Ltd	9600-8i8e 24G PCIe 4.0	Tri-Mode RAID Adapter

[Firminator]

Tri-Mode. Wow.
Turns out Tri as in SATA, SAS, NVMe accd. to https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/BC00-0448EN
Looks like a winner for if you would custom-build a dedicated wiping box.