One pendrive for all PC (Intel/AMD) computers

[Andre Rodovalho]

Nio, I forgot to mention about 32-bit and 64-bit hardware. Well, works for
both, if you want to use in a 32bit PC, you need to download a 32bit ISO
and put on the drive. The same for 64bit. You have to select the right ISO
from the grub menu. For Lubuntu I made this menu:

submenu "Lubuntu 14.04" {
menuentry 'Lubuntu 14.04 amd64' {
set isofile="/iso/lubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso"
loopback loop $isofile
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz.efi boot=casper iso-scan/filename=$isofile
liveimg noprompt noeject quiet splash --
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
}
menuentry 'Lubuntu 14.04 amd64 (failsafe)' {
set isofile="/iso/lubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso"
loopback loop $isofile
set gfxpayload=800x600x16,800x600
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz.efi boot=casper iso-scan/filename=$isofile
liveimg noeject nomodeset noapic --
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
}

menuentry 'Lubuntu 14.04 i386' {
set isofile="/iso/lubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-i386.iso"
loopback loop $isofile
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=$isofile liveimg
noprompt noeject quiet splash --
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
}
menuentry 'Lubuntu 14.04 i386 (failsafe)' {
set isofile="/iso/lubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-i386.iso"
loopback loop $isofile
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=$isofile liveimg
noeject nomodeset noapic --
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
}
}



2015-01-07 9:48 GMT-02:00 Andre Rodovalho <andre.rodovalho at gmail.com>:

> Nio, this is a old fashion style boot. But I have my motherboard setted to
> boot UEFI. Of course, almost all hardware today is a transition between
> BIOS and EFI.
>
> What I can say is that is working for me on old hardware (BIOS) and on
> transition hardware (BIOS+EFI). I see no reason why this could not work
> with EFI firmwares, since GRUB2 supports this technology. But of course, we
> probably should make partitions the way EFI requires to be...
>
> For a EFI only, we should create a GPT partition table, a FAT32 with about
> 512mb at the beggining, and install GRUB2 on this partition, lets say
> /dev/sdb1. For precision, we probably will use UUID to refer the second
> partition where the ISO files will be stored. A little bit more complex,
> but nothing that could not be done today...
>
>
>
> 2015-01-07 8:22 GMT-02:00 Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com>:
>
> Den 2015-01-07 03:06, Emiliano Vazquez skrev:
>> > El 06/01/15 a las 13:47, Nio Wiklund escibió:
>> ...
>> >>
>> >> If you are interested, you are welcome to extend it with other, maybe
>> >> lighter distros, or make it more efficient ... the recipe is in the
>> >> tutorial ;-)
>> >>
>> >> Best regards
>> >> Nio
>> >>
>> >>
>> > Thanks Nio! i will test this!
>> >
>> > best regards.
>> > Emiliano.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
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>> >
>>
>> You are welcome :-)
>>
>> Please share your results, and give feedback, particularly if you have
>> some problem.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
>>
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