booting the porteus iso from a usb key

[donald]

@ neko
Sorry for the late reply.
I didn't had a use case / usb-drive to test the new version.
(also I can not test anything related UEFI)

I believe in you, that it will work as expected...

[neko]

@donald
I'm sorry couldn't live up to your expectations.
A bug was found in the program.
The "live-usb" was updated.

bug
If the 1st. partition size is max, this program will abort.

Thanks.

[Ed_P]

If the 1st. partition size is max, this program will abort.

neko there is no need for more than 1 partition according to this brokenman posting:
viewtopic.php?f=81&t=4632&p=33638#p33604

I've tried that approach and it works great.

[neko]

@Ed_P

Thank you for your useful advice.
I read that articles.
I understand that the persistence data can be kept in a 1 partition.
Because a loop file can be set in a FAT partition.

But the above tool supports 2 partitions.
the reasons are

1. The 2nd partition may be used for general purpose.

2. If the 2nd partition file system is a linux file system (ext4 etc.,) ,
it can be used for a persistence directory.

Of course, it can be used for a persistence loop file data setting area.
Example: Please refer to
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... =15#p35747


Thanks.

[Ed_P]

But the above tool supports 2 partitions.

It should be made clear to multi-system users that files stored on the 2nd partition will not be accessible on Windows machines, regardless of it's format. The above tool is only for Linux users.

[Ed_P]

--> doing it from Linux is the tough part <-- why?

I was referring to grub4dos, it boots everything but to the best of my knowledge it only installs from Windows.

HAH!! Easy2Boot's Linux install does it.

http://www.easy2boot.com/make-an-easy2b ... ing-linux/

fmt.sh will format an existing partition as FAT32, copy the E2B files onto it and then run bootlace to install grub4dos to the MBR

[neko]

@Ed_P
Thank you for your advice.
The document of "live-usb" was updated on reflecting your advice.

Thanks.

[francois]

Booting iso from grub works great (first post of this thread).

[Ed_P]

Booting iso from grub works great (first post of this thread).

Actually, not so much on UEFI systems.