mihaa.blogg.se - Grub4dos boot from cd

Obviously, you need to have the ISOs you want to boot from downloaded to a filesystem accessible by your bootloader (as indicated above, I just put them in /boot/iso).

It also works best if you have a cron job to automatically download the newest version of an ISO.

It works best if you have a fairly sizeable boot/ESP partition, depending on how many ISOs you want to make available and their respective sizes.

Your system still has to be able to boot to GRUB it won’t be able to fix a broken GRUB install obviously.

I’m not aware of any other bootloader that supports loop-mounting, and legacy GRUB definitely doesn’t support it. Know what’s a real PITA? Having to carry around a ton of USB sticks (or even optical media!) for different rescue instances.ĭid you know that if you’re using GRUB, you don’t have to?

HOWTO: Boot a Rescue ISO Directly from GRUB