Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > 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. >
My current install is over a decade old. My /boot partition is about 375MBs. I should have made it larger but at the time, I booted CD/DVD media when needed. I didn't have USB sticks at the time. This time, I plan to make some changes. If I put Knoppix and/or Gentoo LiveGUI in /boot, it will be larger. Much larger. Mark's idea is best tho. If I can get Grub to work and boot it. I'll look into your link more. It sounds interesting but can't figure out exactly how it works. May check youtube for a video. Should clear up the muddy water. Dale :-) :-)
