Booting an ISO from an USB-Key

By pb on January 24, 2009 1:40 PM | No Comments | 1 TrackBack

Sometimes your BIOS or your USB-Key does not support booting. However, if you want to boot a .iso file, grub is your friend. All you need is to add the boothd=/dev/sdb and the bootfrom=/dev/sdb/debian.iso options to your kernel :) This would look at your USB-Key in /dev/sdb and will boot the debian.iso from it.

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