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grub: boot from ISO
How can I boot into an ISO file in GRUB? The ISO file is on a reiserfs partition and GRUB can access it (already tested that).
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Is it possible to boot from an ISO over the network, and how?
I have a machine with a bootable ISO stored on it, and I have another blank machine, which I want to install the ISO on. They're both on the same LAN (attached to the same switch). How would I go ...
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What is it that makes some USB sticks not-bootable?
I recently got a 64GB USB stick and planned to make it a system repair multitool, with different Linux and Windows installers and live images, but I seem to have a USB stick that cannot be booted.
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windows 10 iso on usb refuses to boot after using dd to write it [duplicate]
I am using a windows "standard" ISO file: Win10_1511_1_English_x64.iso and I have verified its md5 matches the expected. The iso is mountable in OS X as a "UDF" format.
I then ...
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How to boot from a USB device using an ISO image
I want to re-install Windows XP on my laptop.
I have the ISO image for Windows XP.
How can I boot from a USB device using simply my ISO image of Windows XP?
My laptop is an IBM T42.
If you are running ...
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Where can I download "bootrec.exe"?
I have my Windows 7 x64 ISO on my pendrive, but WinToFlash app forgot to install the MBR (again).
The only PC I have, uses x86 Win7 , so it won't install the bootrec.exe, since that is a 64bit ...
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what is the difference between the usb booting mechanism and optical disk booting mechanism?
Many distributions of linux/bsd have separate usb and dvd images and writing the dvd image doesn't seem to work. What is fundamentally different between these two mechanisms?
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Multiple Operating Systems or ISO's Bootloader for a USB Stick?
I have no idea how to do this.
I have 7 iso's that I want to be able to easily boot from using a USB Stick and they are:
Windows 7 Ultimate x86
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Windows 8.1 x64
Hirens BootCD
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Create a bootable USB of Windows PE on linux
How can I create a bootable USB using Windows PE ISO on linux?
Note - Any Windows PE ISO available on web which supports creating a bootable USB from linux will be helpful (please mention the steps ...
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grub: how to boot into ISO partition
I have copied an ISO file into a partition (i.e. dd if=isofile of=/dev/sdb1). How can I boot into that partition via GRUB?
When I try just with chainloader (hd1,0)+1, it says unknown executable ...
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Boot to Live CD with VMWare
I have a CentOS6 virtual machine running on VMWare Workstation 7 and I need to boot to a LiveCD to increase my disk size. My problem is that I cant get the VM to boot to the ISO. It always boots to ...
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How can ISO 9660 coexist with a Linux filesystem on a Live CD partition?
I'm confused by this. My understanding is that a live CD is sometimes accessed through the ISO 9660 driver (like when you're accessing the file without booting), but obviously a different filesystem ...
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Run EFI files/scripts from [boot, virtual media] ISO
Most vendors recently provide servers firmware updates only as set of EFI files (example). But their servers internal (also as any external) IP-KVM can connect only ISO images as boot virtual media. ...
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Is there a bootable ISO out there that does a performance check on PCs? [closed]
I am looking for something that checks CPU speed, memory, disk, graphics, in the same way done by the Windows performance index. I need a bootable ISO.
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How to make a ISO file out of a folder containing Windows setup files
I copied the Windows 8 CD to my HDD. I want to convert that folder to an ISO and use that to create a bootable USB.
Please tell me how I can make an ISO image out of that folder containing files.
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