Dev1 Galaxy Forum / USB Multiboot

Re: USB Multiboot

dummy@example.com (bai4Iej2need) — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 17:30:02 +0000

rEFInd is UEFI only and does not work with some older HW of mine

Ventoy was the solution for me.

ls -hl
insgesamt 7,8G
-rwxr-xr-x 1 md md 2,6G  8. Apr 22:57 debian-live-11.6.0-amd64-xfce.iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 md md 372M 16. Jun 2022  devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_netinstall.iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 md md 642M 13. Jun 2022  devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_server.iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 md md 405M 16. Jun 2022  devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_i386_netinstall.iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 md md 1,2G  8. Apr 23:22 devuan_chimaera_4.0.2_amd64_desktop-live.iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 md md 586M 10. Apr 23:48 devuan_chimaera_4.0.2_amd64_minimal-live.iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 md md 856M  8. Apr 22:55 grml64-full_2022.11.iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 md md 874K 29. Sep 2014  Memtest86-4.3.7.iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 md md 6,0M 11. Apr 01:22 mt86plus_6.10_64.iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 md md  816 11. Apr 00:59 SHA256SUMS_ventoy_sorted
-rwxr-xr-x 1 md md 1,3G 10. Apr 12:35 tails-amd64-5.11.img

Re: USB Multiboot

dummy@example.com (Devarch) — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 18:49:32 +0000

https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

Re: USB Multiboot

dummy@example.com (Trev Brownen) — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 02:22:30 +0000

refind a program that lets yoy boot many operating systems I have 30 on a large usb stick.

http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/

Re: USB Multiboot

dummy@example.com (bai4Iej2need) — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 22:06:55 +0000

golinux wrote:

Please look at the multi-boot iso that fsmithred made for the Devuan conference in April. That may give you some hints.

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Re: USB Multiboot

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 21:31:24 +0000

If you do get a login screen (maybe after you log out) the username/password combination is devuan/devuan (or root/toor).

Check the sha256sum on the .img file to make sure it downloaded correctly.

Re: USB Multiboot

dummy@example.com (roluan17) — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:05:36 +0000

Thank you for the reply!
I thought, it would be something similar to STAR, Login: starlive Pwd: live.
I'll by me a new stick, tomorrow. Then I will go on again.
greetings

Re: USB Multiboot

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 12:07:08 +0000

If you do nothing at the boot menu, you will get the first item, which is desktop-live i386. The system is set for automatic login, so if you got a login screen, something is wrong.

What kind of instructions would you like? There's not much to say. Just dd the image to a usb stick, boot the stick and choose a system. If you want to install one of those systems, it's probably better to download one of the 2.1 isos, because they are newer.

Re: USB Multiboot

dummy@example.com (Camtaf) — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 11:04:54 +0000

I'd imagine that if you don't select one of the choices at the boot menu, you are being dropped into a terminal session, possibly for recovery purposes. If you do select a distro at boot time, does it then load to a desktop?

Re: USB Multiboot

dummy@example.com (roluan17) — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 10:13:21 +0000

Well I put that img (dev1usb_2019-03-28.img) to a stick and it runs ok until I have a black screen leaving the prompt blinking after
"login:"

I thought there might be a hint in any READme, but couldn't find one.

This was no try to create a multiboot system though it definitely has several different Devuan distros on board which can be selected during the boot process.

Re: USB Multiboot

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 18:07:01 +0000

@fsmithred . . . I suggested he look at that to confirm that multiboot can be done. I thought if he poked at it a bit he might be able to figure out how to put one together.

Re: USB Multiboot

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 17:51:29 +0000

I forget exactly how I arranged the boot menu, but there should be four different systems you can boot: minimal-live and desktop-live both in i386 and amd64. Which one did you boot and what happened after you logged in?

If you want to make your own live-usb, you're in the wrong place. Use one of the usb creators or do it manually as mentioned in posts above.

Re: USB Multiboot

dummy@example.com (roluan17) — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 17:18:32 +0000

@golinux
well, dev1usb seems to run. But I can't get further than login:

Please give me a hint, the readme is quite frugal.

Re: USB Multiboot

dummy@example.com (roluan17) — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 16:25:16 +0000

rufus? Isn't that for "He Who Cannot Be Named"?

Re: USB Multiboot

dummy@example.com (Micronaut) — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 21:44:16 +0000

Unetbootin is not the only bootable USB creator. As far as I know, Rufus can install multiple environments on a single USB stick. But I've never used it that way myself.

https://rufus.ie/

Re: USB Multiboot

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 13:43:16 +0000

To make a "multiboot" USB simply copy the images to a partition on the USB stick then install both types of GRUB:

# mount /dev/sdXY /mnt
# mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
# mount /dev/sdXZ /mnt/boot/efi
# grub-install --target=i386-pc --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sdX
# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --boot-directory=/mnt/boot --efi-directory=/mnt/boot/efi --removable

The stick will need both the main root partition (/dev/sdXY) and an EFI system partition (/dev/sdXZ) with a GUID partition table and a BIOS boot partition. For both UEFI and non-UEFI grub-install commands use the grub-pc-bin & grub-efi-amd64-bin packages. For multibitness UEFI systems there is also a grub-efi-ia32-bin package (--target=i386-efi).

Then write (/mnt)/boot/grub/grub.cfg with menu entries for each image, here is an example stanza for a Devuan ISO image:

menuentry 'Devuan (live)' {                                   
   isofile=usr/share/iso/devuan.iso
   search.fs_uuid $uuid_stick root
   loopback loop $root/$isofile                                             
   linux (loop)/live/vmlinuz boot=live config fromiso=$root/$isofile toram  
   initrd (loop)/live/initrd.img                                              
}

In this example the ISO image is stored on the root partition under /usr/share/iso/devuan.iso (because FHS) but you can put it wherever you want. Replace $uuid_stick with the actual UUID of the root partition.