[kwlug-disc] question -- booting from multiple ISOs in USB stick?

CrankyOldBugger crankyoldbugger at gmail.com
Sat Sep 26 20:14:01 EDT 2015


I made a multi-boot flash drive on a Windows client using YUMI.  It's very
easy to follow.

Sorry, I don't know the Linux equivalent of this.


On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 at 16:09 Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

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> I had multi-os booting on a USB stick running for quite a while on a
> 16 GB USB thumbdrive. Sadly, I lost that drive, and haven't quite
> rebuilt it on a new 64 GB thumbdrive I got to replace it.
>
> Essentially, I installed PC-GRUB (GRUB 0.99) onto the stick, then used
> a manually created menu to select an .iso file to mount as the 'loop'
> device.
>
> This is the only bookmark I have about multi-OS USB sticks:
>
>
> http://knightwise.com/portable-multi-booting-operating-systems-on-a-stick/
>
> It is not what I ended up using.  A quick search for 'linux multi-os
> bootable usb drive grub' returns a *lot* more hits than it used to
> when I created my first multi-os bootable thumbdrive.
>
>
> https://ixquick.com/do/search?query=linux+multi-os+bootable+usb+drive+grub
>
> - --Bob, who apologizes for providing a non-answer
>
>
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>
> On 26/09/15 03:40 PM, William Park wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Right now, I'm carrying around 2 USB sticks, - one 32GB -- it boots
> > Linux and contains about 10 bootable ISOs. - one 8GB -- to 'dd' the
> > real ISO that I want to boot.
> >
> > It's 2-step process, and it's ok.  But, I would like to reduce it
> > to 1-step.
> >
> > How can I boot those multiple ISOs directly from one USB stick?
> >
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