[HN Gopher] USB Boot of Multiple ISO Files by GRUB2 Boot Loader
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USB Boot of Multiple ISO Files by GRUB2 Boot Loader
Author : transpute
Score : 22 points
Date : 2023-12-16 13:15 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| p1mrx wrote:
| > The linux command loads a Linux kernel from the specified path.
| casper/vmlinuz.efi is the linux kernel inside the Ubuntu ISO
| image.
|
| While this does seem useful, it's not really "booting an ISO" if
| you have to manually tell it what to execute.
| freen wrote:
| Ventoy is a fantastic tool for this sort of thing:
| https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
| bheadmaster wrote:
| While this works, I find this method a bit tedious to use, at
| least compared to Ventoy [0].
|
| Ventoy allows you to create a bootable USB containing any number
| of ISO files just by writing to a partition. It even supports
| Windows, and has some cool features like overriding Secure Boot
| on some machines.
|
| [0] https://www.ventoy.net/
| sowbug wrote:
| This is cool! While I love Ventoy as part of my toolbox, I might
| think about adding a GRUB-bootable rescue ISO as part of my
| Ansible system configuration, so that I don't actually have to go
| find my Ventoy USB drive when something goes sideways. Could be
| especially useful if I'm traveling with just a laptop.
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