Comments on: VirtualBox Multiboot USB

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:27:25 +0000

Thanks, Hadar. A CD based on the ISO does work fine; I'm experimenting with the USB option for a netbook. Both my netbook and my workstation appear to support a usb boot option, so I think it must be the fact that I'm using a usb HDD instead of a flash drive. I guess I'll just find a flash drive and try that out. Thanks again!

By: hadar

hadar — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:22:33 +0000

Well, I'm probably not going to be able to help you, except to say that an external USB drive and a USB Flash drive don't present themselves identically to the OS, so it's quite likely that utilities like Unetbootin that work correctly with Flash drives won't work with a "real" external drive.

Beyond that, if your bios is old, it's also possible that it simply can't boot off of USB disks, though most machines made in the past few years are capable. Make sure your boot order is checking to boot off of a USB before looking for the internal disk.

If you can, you should create a CD with the rescue ISO on it. That should work just fine.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:13:36 +0000

That's pretty cool. I can't even get my usb drive to boot with just the reflect rescue.iso. I followed all the instructions for using Unetbootin to put the rescue.iso on my usb drive partition, but then my machine fails to boot from it. I should point out that this is a 320GB usb hard drive (NOT a flash drive), with only a single 16MB FAT partition on it.

If you have any suggestions on how I might get this to work, I'd love to hear it!

Thanks,
Greg

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:27:25 +0000

By: hadar

hadar — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:22:33 +0000

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:13:36 +0000

By: DJ

DJ — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:06:36 +0000

Thanku very much, nice artical

By: electronic dog fences

electronic dog fences — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:44:26 +0000

It works indeed, I tried that as well, really good one, thank you for the share.

By: dih

dih — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:10:47 +0000

Thanks a lot! It really works. Now, after days of unsuccessful tries, I've got Ubuntu Netbook Remix on my VB (2.2.2), ready to experiments

By: hadar

hadar — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:59:08 +0000

In the current manual, version 2.2.4, it's now in section 9.10. The command itself is on page 134. It's the same as I responded to Piefke666 in a comment above this one.