So I found the USB pendrive, and the boot stuff on it is called YUMI. It
looks like it's from pendrive linux...
The link google found me is:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
I'm not sure how I installed it, I certainly didn't use windows or wine
when i made mine...
But basically, it's a syslinux boot on USB, and it uses chain loading and
grub chained to boot other things, like hard drives, or complete ISO images
fond in a directory....
a.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan [ at ] highrise [ dot ] ca> wrote:
> I have a setup like that on a 16GB usb key. I forget the name, but it was
> a pretty basic syslinux based boot, and it would scan a directory for ISOs
> and present them all as "boot options". It "just worked" on the computers
> I tested it on, I used it mainly for debian-live and for
> debian-testing-netinstall images...
>
> I can't remember the name now, but I'll try and remember when I get home
> to check the key...
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca>wrote:
>
>> THanks. I'd thought of the XXXLinux approaches, but have only used them
>> for individual images (and frankly used them but did not learn much how
>> they work). I should probably look further into it.
>>
>> However, by using archivemount I found the name of the initrd and kernel
>> for TinyCore-current and got it to boot with grub2. So far no joy with
>> gparted iso. The hint came from a page
>>
>> http://www.pendrivelinux.com/**boot-multiple-iso-from-usb-**
>> via-grub2-using-linux/<http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-multiple-iso-from-usb-via-grub2-using-linux/>
>>
>> However, they show a grub.cfg file with lots of different setups for
>> different iso's, and it looks like they change with the flavour of the
>> month of each distro.
>>
>> If I figure out the "rules" I'll try to write them up and post a link
>> here. In the meantime, if anyone is interested in sharing the
>> investigation, contact me off list. This is obviously not top of the todo
>> list, but it struck me as a nice way to have iso's bootable, including the
>> boot-repair disks.
>>
>> Best, JN
>>
>>
>> On 13-03-12 10:18 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 06:36:14PM -0400, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've an old 40G 2.5" drive from a dead laptop that is in a USB case.
>>>>
>>>> My thought was to use it for holding a bunch of .iso images of
>>>> liveCDs. However, I've had no joy trying to set up booting of these.
>>>>
>>>> Multisystem "sort of" worked once. Seems glitchy, and attached to
>>>> different systems had different behaviour.
>>>>
>>>> Gujin (following some suggested approaches on net) did not fire up.
>>>>
>>>> Grub seems needs an interface to the isos, and instructions I found
>>>> seemed to suggest I could simply specify the isos in the grub.cfg,
>>>> which failed when I tried. (The recipe I tried was not clear if it
>>>> wanted grub or grub2, and I suspect therein lies some of the
>>>> trouble.)
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone done something like this. I'd be happy to get some
>>>> advice, get it working and write a 1-pager. I've rather put the isos
>>>> on an external drive than burn them to cd/dvd.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Peter Anvin's SYSLINUX or ISO LINUX would be the way I'd go.
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**SYSLINUX<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYSLINUX>
>>> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/**index.php/The_Syslinux_Project<http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project>
>>>
>>> I'm already using pxelinux on my network to boot a number of
>>> distributions.
>>>
>>> Cheers, JN
>>>>
>>>
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