Install Multiple Bootable Iso To Usb

[Jerica Shilt]

Iwant to make a usb drive with multiple partitions, each containing bootable distro. I tried to create multiple bootable distros in single partition of usb drive.That didn't work as I wished.So, then I thought of converting MBR to GPT and I am stuck there.Can usb with GPT partition scheme do the job? and about that, I have windows installed in my laptop hard disk and don't want to wipe it down during converting usb partition table.

Full installs are more stable and secure than persistent installs, but not as quick to make. They are better at utilizing disk space as no fixed size casper-rw file or partition is required. They are not much use at installing an OS, for this booting an ISO works fine.

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I have big usb drive, say it 128GB, and want to download popular installation ISO distributions, like Windows 7, 10, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, FreeBSD, so on. I need ability to install any OS to some destination hard drive. I want to replace multiple OS deployment/installation DVDs with single USB drive.

So this is not a live USB drive, from which you can run an OS. I want to fit multiple installation DVDs on one USB drive. So it's deployment USB, from which i can install any OS to PC hard drive at boot time, using ISO files on that USB drive. Only.

One good option is winsetupfromusb. It let you install different versions of Windows and linux-based on the same USB. It even let you install distribution or deploy (i don't know what right word for it) legacy operating system like WinXp with the other OS.

Do you want to run multiple operating systems from a single USB stick? Perhaps boot into a live environment or even install the operating system? Fortunately, learning how to boot multiple OS from a USB is easier than you'd think!

Multiboot USB drives can host live Linux distributions and installation media for Windows. That essentially means you can boot several operating systems or utilties from a single USB. Multiboot USB media are explicitly designed to provide maintenance to a computer from outside of the computer's operating system, so they're often used by IT support.

WinSetupFromUSB is a highly recommended pick for installing Windows from a USB and multiboot USBs. It's an intuitive multiboot software option. However, WinSetupFromUSB is only compatible with Windows 2000/XP and later, as well as Linux and BSD.

MultiBootUSB is a pretty popular open-source program for creating a multi-OS bootable USB flash drive. The software is also a portable application, meaning it'll run from your USB drive, and you do not need to install it. This gives you a great deal of flexibility, should you want to change things up but you aren't at your home or office computer.

XBoot has a lot more documentation than MultiBootUSB, but both programs don't require a lot of instruction to use. XBoot provides a similar experience and is also portable media making it handy to use on the move.

YUMI has a slightly different workflow. First, you choose which distro you want from the list before browsing to the ISO on your hard drive or following the provided link to the home page of your chosen distro. Furthermore, there are also two different versions of YUMI:

So, if you're booting one of the latest versions of Windows, such as Windows 10 or Windows 11, you need to select the YUMI UEFI version (unless you're running your BIOS in CMS Legacy mode). YUMI's UEFI version is a relatively new tool at the time of writing but is a handy upgrade with support for modern operating systems. The images below are taken from YUUMI UEFI.

Remember, you cannot switch between operating systems once you boot into the OS. You have to choose the operating system you want use during the boot process, restarting your computer to switch between each different operating system as you want to use them. Of course, if you want to use a

I'm installing multiple operating systems on a usb drive I recently purchased for this purpose and was wondering how to create a usb drive with multiple persistent OS's that will be linux based and have a capacity > 4gb of the casper-rw file and was wondering 1. if this was possible (I have read from 1 source that it wasnt but it was not one that was overly trustworthy), and 2. how to go about doing it (answers should be aimed at ubuntu being the system I create the drive on)

An NTFS Easy2boot drive will boot multiple linux ISOs with persistence even if the linux being used does not support NTFS. You can even boot from an exFAT E2B drive to a linux distro that does not support exFAT. E2B creates a 4th partition on the E2B USB drive and 'maps' the ISO to that partition. When the ISO boots, it sees the 4th partition as having a CDFS filesystem and mounts it. It then gets the .sqfs file (or whatever it needs) from that CDFS partition. The same for the persistence file - it maps the persistence file to partition 3 of the E2B USB drive before booting to the ISO.Pretty much all linux ISOs should work with E2B.It also supports UEFI-booting (by converting each linux ISO to a .imgPTN partition image file and 'switching in' that partition.)

Yes you can, just as long as each bootable installer is on its own partition. Just make sure the drive is big enough to handle the size of all the installers. Open Disk Utility. Click on "View". Select "Show All Devices. Select the USB drive, not the volume below it. Click on "Erase" in the top tool bar. Select Scheme: GUID Partition Map, and Format: MacOS Extended (Journaled). Click on "Erase" in the lower right of the drop down window. After that is done, click on "Partition", and add the number of partitions you want, Click on "Apply".

At less than $30 for a pack of ten 16 GB USB flash drives and variously less, hardly seems worth the effort. Particularly when accounting for the extra effort in creating and maintaining all of that, and cycling off the older installers as they age out. Or losing all of your installers together if the omnibus USB drive is lost or fails. But sure. Should work.

I decided to enable Secure boot. I have both Windows and Arch installed right now. (different disks)

Anyway, I decided to disable it, since there was some configuration to do and read about it some other time. Now it's disabled.

I don't think it is creating creating new entries. The UEFI OS in your pastebin looks like your Arch installation and your BIOS is merely setting it up as the default OS to each successive boot order.

I am not entirely clear. Are you trying to remove the Arch OS entry in your motherboard's NVRAM?

It really seems like a bug, and there is no newer version since 2016.

What I'm thinking now is to clear the SSD that Arch is installed of all data. Return UEFI to it's original configuration and flash it with the latest version again. Then reinstall and see how it goes. I'll do it tomorrow and see how it goes.

Before doing something drastic as reinstalling the BIOS (dangerous too) and wiping your Arch install, you can clean up your NVRAM first, removing your Arch entry there, and see what that brings. It could be that there's just a bit-flag regarding secure boot on the Arch entry that's causing the problem. The best way is to boot into a UEFI-Shell. You can create a bootable usb UEFI shell by following this. I've done this in the past and the link works for me. You can find the shell commands here but you will mainly need bcfg for listing your entries and removing the Arch entry (make sure not to remove Windows entry). Once you've removed the Arch entry, see if the old problem persist. If not then you can boot Arch via a bootable media, chroot to your old SSD installation and create a new entry via efibootmgr. Reboot and see if the old problem returns (with Secure Boot disabled of course).

Hi all,

wanting to know if i should be expecting any problems in setting this up and ongoing. one drive will have office applications for work, the other separate SSD will have games. from my digging around the only precautions that needs to be observed is to make sure the first SSD is unplugged while installing Windows onto the second SSD.

When i first bought the computer the attendant in the shop used a windows boot menu, a nice blue screen, so the boot record for the second drive was actually on the first drive, (see picture above) now that iam upgrading the second drive to a larger size to accommodate larger games, the system is having a hernia, chkdsk runs on most boot ups and deletes files all over the place. i have replaced the upgraded second drive with the original drive, and all problems have ceased. Would deleting the additional boot record fix the problem, if so, which is the book record to delete? Or do you think there is no way out of this and i will have to reinstall windows on the first drive?, if that is the case, then the first question in this post is focus.

I'm not sure why you would keep having disk failures. Only the disk manufacturer may know the answer to that one. A better option may be to use a hardware mirror (raid 1) where you have a fault tolerant set. One or the other disks fails and the OS lives on, you replace the failed disk and the controller rebuilds the array back to fault tolerance.

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