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Creating a bootable usb stick from a .iso file saved on a disk #2938
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@Commandante-che Additionally there is the RAWDISK output method, cf. |
@jsmeix great idea! ideally we could merge I guess that this work would require sponsoring. |
@schlomo I know that we have too many different implementations For example see Both faded away because noone appeared to implement it. |
For testing purposes, I succeeded with RUFUS. |
@guru4712 can it be that RUFUS actually does ISO image booting similar to https://schlomo.schapiro.org/2013/11/magic-iso-image-booting-with-gnu-grub-2.html? That would be another approach although personally I really prefer us to get a proper solution for hybrid ISO/disk boot. I suppose that with limiting support for UEFI boot only that would be much simpler as we don't need magic bootloaders for UEFI boot. |
@schlomo: My goal was only to test if there is a way to boot a rescue hardware if the usb-stick intended to boot from is unavailable. I alwas generate the .ISO, too, and leave it within the data backup. |
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Hi
I'm also trying to get rear up and running for the first time.
I hope someone can help me.
I’ve listed (I hope) all the details requested below.
I've got mkrescue working over a samba network(Version 4.15.13-Ubuntu)
with two Ubuntu 22.04 nodes.
I've now got a .iso file saved on the server.
I want to copy the .iso file onto a bootable usb stick.
The reason for this is that I'm going to be running mkrescue as a cron job.
I don't want anyone to have to remember to stick the stick in the computer,
so I've saving the .iso to the server and then (trying to) copy the .iso
to a stick so I can boot from the stick and recover a crashed system.
Does anyone know how to do this? Is this a reasonable thing to want to do?
I've tried using Balena Etcher, but it tells me that the .iso file
is not bootable and indeed after I've copied it to the usb stick and
tried to boot from it, it was not recognised as bootable.
I've also tried to format the usb stick with 'rear format -- --efi
and then used dd to copy the .iso file to the usb stick,
but that doesn't work either.
Any ideas anyone?
I can't think what else to do.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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