Creating a USB stick to boot Linux ISOs without wiping the device
Room B | Wed 22 Jan 10:45 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
Presented by
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In their day job, Greg is a Site Reliability Engineer at Google, outside of work they are a recreational sys admin and hacker. They are interested in Databases, Privacy and Security, Open Hardware, Gaming, and many other things.
In their day job, Greg is a Site Reliability Engineer at Google, outside of work they are a recreational sys admin and hacker. They are interested in Databases, Privacy and Security, Open Hardware, Gaming, and many other things.
Abstract
You have a live Linux distro that you want to run, but don't want to wipe the only USB stick you have lying around... What do you do?
This talk contains a streamlined version of what I learned while trying to build a simple system to allow me to boot different images from a single USB device.
Learn how to use Grub to build a USB flash drive that can boot multiple Linux ISOs, while operating as a normal mass storage device. This talk will cover a 30k foot overview of how Linux boots under EFI systems, an overview of how "live" distros work, writing custom Grub configurations, and scripting in Grub to dynamically generate config.
You have a live Linux distro that you want to run, but don't want to wipe the only USB stick you have lying around... What do you do? This talk contains a streamlined version of what I learned while trying to build a simple system to allow me to boot different images from a single USB device. Learn how to use Grub to build a USB flash drive that can boot multiple Linux ISOs, while operating as a normal mass storage device. This talk will cover a 30k foot overview of how Linux boots under EFI systems, an overview of how "live" distros work, writing custom Grub configurations, and scripting in Grub to dynamically generate config.