On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 03:48:49PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/26/2016 1:57 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>I need to boot into a hard drive diagnostic tool which is provided only as > >>an ISO image by the manufacturer. Since my laptop does not have a CD drive, > >>I hoped I could use a USB flash drive to run this tool from. > > > >I would try `grub-imageboot`: put the .iso into /boot/images/ then > >update-grub, then boot and select the iso image from the menu. > > > >It works at least on my Thinkpad T61 to boot into the BIOS-update > >ISO images distributed by the manufacturer. > > > > > > Stefan > > > > > > I have a nominally different problem. I did a Google search for > grub-imageboot. > The hits I read were intriguing but but not complete. > My life might be simpler if I could put Grub2 and *several* ISO's on a > single USB flash drive. I believe all the ISO's are iso-hybrid.
You believe in making things very hard indeed for yourself - that's fine but seems quixotic, at least from here. You can put one blu-ray iso onto one stick, for example - and install everything you're likely to need. Only CD / DVD / Blu-ray 1 (and, of course the netinsts) are iso-hybrid and are only guaranteed to boot for Intel/AMD 32 and 64 bit images [i386 / amd64 respectively. I still don't quite understand some of the constraints you put on yourself - but that's for you, I guess :) All the very best, AndyC
