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Re: bootable USB drive creation

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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.

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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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