Setting up Multiboot from ISOs

Amichai Rotman amichai at iglu.org.il
Sun Dec 21 20:08:31 UTC 2014


On Dec 20, 2014 8:22 PM, "NoOp" <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> 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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Sorry, tried that.

As I understand, it supports Ubuntu-only ISOs. The ones I am trying to boot
are not...

Thank you
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