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Re: bootable USB drive creation

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On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 03:48:49PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 10/26/2016 1:57 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >>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
> >
> >
> 
> I have a nominally different problem. I did a Google search for
> grub-imageboot.
> The hits I read were intriguing but but not complete.
> My life might be simpler if I could put Grub2 and *several* ISO's on a
> single USB flash drive. I believe all the ISO's are iso-hybrid.

You believe in making things very hard indeed for yourself - that's fine
but seems quixotic, at least from here.

You can put one blu-ray iso onto one stick, for example - and install everything you're likely to need.

Only CD / DVD / Blu-ray 1 (and, of course the netinsts) are iso-hybrid and are only guaranteed to boot
for Intel/AMD 32 and 64 bit images [i386 / amd64 respectively.

I still don't quite understand some of the constraints you put on yourself - but that's for you, I guess :)

All the very best,

AndyC

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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
      Re: bootable USB drive creation "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> - 2016-10-26 23:30 +0200
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