One pendrive for all PC (Intel/AMD) computers

[Nio Wiklund]

Thanks Andre,

Best regards
Nio

Den 2015-01-07 13:09, Andre Rodovalho skrev:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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