[aklug] Swiss Army Chainsaw discs and flash drives (was: Re: Re: THE MARTIANS ARE COMING!!! HEAD FOR THE HILLS!!)

Hey, Piet -

Piet van Weel wrote, on 7/7/2009 12:40 PM:
> Nothing much happening here...
> I've been working with the System Rescue CD and
> getting it and Bart PE to co-exist on a flash drive... :D

I am also very interested in this area!

Have you looked at grub4dos? It's 100% grub-compatible, with some
bonuses. You can use it to boot straight from an ISO, radically
simplifying keeping a Swiss Army Chainsaw disc or flash current.

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1399

Example syntax:

title UBCD 4.11
find --set-root /ubcd411.iso
map /ubcd411.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)

You can also use it to pass boot control back and forth between syslinux
and grub4dos, via mutual chainloading:

http://knowhowbyromiz.blogspot.com/2008/09/grub-chainloads-syslinux-and-back.html

Also, if you have to drop from grub4dos into DOS (for BIOS flashing or
something), you can just run 'grub.exe' and it will reload grub, so that
you can skip a system reboot.

Royce

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Received on Tue Jul 7 12:49:48 2009