Am Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 05:26:15PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > > I'm wanting to be able to boot something from the hard drive in the > > > event the OS itself won't boot. The other day I had to dig around and > > > find a bootable USB stick and also found a DVD. Ended up with the DVD > > > working best. I already have memtest on /boot. Thing is, I very rarely > > > use it. ;-) > > > > So in the scenario you are suggesting, is grub working, giving you a > > boot choice screen, and your new Gentoo install is not working so > > you want to choose Knoppix to repair whatever is wrong with > > Gentoo? > > Given I have a 500GB drive, I got plenty of space. Heck, a 10GB > partition each is more than enough for either Knoppix or LiveGUI. I > could even store info on there about drive partitions and scripts that I > use a lot. Jeez, that's a idea.
Back in the day, I was annoyed that whenever I needed $LIVE_SYSTEM, I had to reformat an entire USB stick for that. In times when you don’t even get sticks below 8 GB anymore, I found it a waste of material and useful storage space. And then I found ventoy: https://www.ventoy.net/ It is a mini-Bootloader which you install once to a USB device, kind-of a live system of its own. But when booting it, it dynamically scans the content of its device and creates a new boot menu from it. So you can put many ISOs on one device as simple files, delete them, upgrade them, whatever, and then you can select one to boot from. Plus, the rest of the stick remains usable as storage, unlike sticks that were dd’ed with an ISO. -- Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. The four elements: earth, air and firewater.
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