Setting up Multiboot from ISOs
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat Dec 20 18:21:44 UTC 2014
On 12/18/2014 08:46 AM, Amichai Rotman wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to set up a desktop kiosk-style computer at my local
> Library, based on Ubuntu.
>
> My idea is to have a regular desktop mainly for browsing the Web, but I
> would also like it to be able to reboot into an ISO by clicking an icon
> on the Launcher.
>
> I specifically would like to use the Linux Gamers.net [1] and another
> ISO compressed as squashfs and using syslinux to boot.
>
> I am having trouble configuring the GRUB2 menuentries to boot these as
> ISOs and I have no idea how to create a launcher to boot the computer to
> the ISOs.
>
> The computer isn't strong enough for a VM...
>
> [1] http://live.linux-gamers.net
>
> Thank you,
>
> Amichai.
>
>
>
I use grml-rescueboot & keep multiple ISO in the /boot/grml folder - so
I can easily boot into various versions of Ubuntu, KUbuntu etc:
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/ISOBoot#grml-rescueboot>
added info:
<https://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=rescueboot>
<http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2011/01/07/booting-iso-images-from-within-grub2/>
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