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

[Bob Jonkman]

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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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