Timeline for creating a bootable USB drive with a single partition
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| Sep 1, 2024 at 13:26 | comment | added | oldfred |
see man fdisk & rodsbooks.com/gdisk & askubuntu.com/questions/1217832/…
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| Sep 1, 2024 at 13:26 | comment | added | oldfred | I always preferred to have separate flash drives for BIOS/MBR and UEFI/gpt back when I still wanted a BIOS install. Some installed grub BIOS boot version grub-pc to MBR. But sometimes updates would get systems out of sync. Since 2012 systems are UEFI, so not much use for BIOS/MBR anymore. Grub will boot in BIOS mode from gpt drive if you add a tiny 1MB unformatted partition wth bios_grub flag or ef02 using gdisk. The only place for MBR is Windows boot in BIOS mode. | |
| Sep 1, 2024 at 9:36 | comment | added | karbi | thank you @oldfred , I tried your suggestion , it work for efi system, what can I do for msdos (MBR) table partition , there is a solution , my goal is to learne differente things | |
| Aug 31, 2024 at 14:02 | comment | added | oldfred |
If UEFI system, you can create a FAT32 partition with boot,esp flags. Most systems prefer gpt partitioning for UEFI boot. Then you can extract ISO into the FAT32 partition. I used 7zip. Have not done it for a while as I normally use grub to loopmount ISOs. sudo 7z x ~/ISO/impish-desktop-canary-amd64.iso -o/media/fred/EFI_SSD64 My old command as example. Does not work on Windows as it has .wim file over 4GB that needs split. Most should otherwise work. Note no space after -o.
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| S Aug 31, 2024 at 11:24 | history | asked | karbi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |