Install linux on usb and boot from usb on other computer

#INSTALL LINUX ON USB AND BOOT FROM USB ON OTHER COMPUTER INSTALL#
#INSTALL LINUX ON USB AND BOOT FROM USB ON OTHER COMPUTER MANUAL#

If we booted from this stick now, we would be dropped into a Grub shell, so letвЂ™s add a menu. This gives us a bare configuration file with no menu entries.

#INSTALL LINUX ON USB AND BOOT FROM USB ON OTHER COMPUTER MANUAL#

If you are creating a flash drive to share, you may want to look at the theme section of the Grub manual to make your boot screen look prettier Adding a distro

This will create a configuration to boot the distros on your hard drive, so load grub.cfg into an editor and remove everything after the line that says: # END /etc/grub.d/00_header # Now we create a Grub configuration file with: $ grub-mkconfig -o /media/MULTIBOOT/boot/grub/grub.cfg Note: the boot-directory option points to the folder that will contain the Grub files but the device name you give is the whole stick, not the partition. $ sudo grub-install -target=i386-pc -boot-directory=/media/MULTIBOOT/boot /dev/sde

#INSTALL LINUX ON USB AND BOOT FROM USB ON OTHER COMPUTER INSTALL#

In these examples, the USB stick is at /dev/sde (this computer has a silly number of hard drives) and the filesystem is mounted at /media/sde1, amend the paths to suit your circumstances.ДЇirst, we install Grub on the stick to make it bootable: $ mkdir -p /media/MULTIBOOT/boot Whatever you use give the filesystem a label, we used MULTIBOOT, as it will be important later. Use whatever fits in with your other planned uses of the drive, we generally stick with FAT as it means we can download and add ISO images from a Windows computer if necessary. WeвЂ™ve used FAT and ext2 (thereвЂ™s no point in using the journalling ext3 or ext4 on a flash drive). The choice of filesystem is largely up to you, as long as it is something that Grub can read. If thatвЂ™s the case, use fdisk or GParted to partition the drive, then you can create the filesystem. What you cannot get away with is a stick formatted with no partition table, as some are.

We will assume that the USB stick is set up with a single partition, although you could use the first partition of a multi-partition layout.

Setting up the USB stickДЇirst, we need to format the USB stick. If you want to use your USB stick with 32-bit equipment, stick with the MBR booting method. This is a 64-bit target, as UEFI is only fully supported on 64-bit hardware. $ sudo grub-install -target=x86_64-efi-boot-directory=/media/MULTIBOOT/boot /dev/sde So this makes our stick the most portable option, but if you need to boot your stick using UEFI, change the grub-install command to use the UEFI target, like this: While most computers of the last few years use UEFI, they still have a compatibility mode to boot from an MBR. In this instance, weвЂ™ve created a flash drive that uses the old style MBR booting.

Install linux on usb and boot from usb on other computer