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| From | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: bootable USB drive creation |
| Date | 2016-10-26 21:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <swBTX-83B-27@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <swAEx-73J-11@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
> I need to boot into a hard drive diagnostic tool which is provided only as
> an ISO image by the manufacturer. Since my laptop does not have a CD drive,
> I hoped I could use a USB flash drive to run this tool from.
I would try `grub-imageboot`: put the .iso into /boot/images/ then
update-grub, then boot and select the iso image from the menu.
It works at least on my Thinkpad T61 to boot into the BIOS-update
ISO images distributed by the manufacturer.
Stefan
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Re: bootable USB drive creation "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-10-26 20:50 +0200
Re: bootable USB drive creation Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-10-26 21:20 +0200
Re: bootable USB drive creation Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-26 22:50 +0200
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