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Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.15 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 2380dac0-7e21-43eb-8bb2-03d4d3fa9ff9 X-Archives-Hash: f327fc9c6e1b3762c2ba366d6decb796 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 05:26:15PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >>>> I'm wanting to be able to boot something from the hard drive in the >>>> event the OS itself won't boot.  The other day I had to dig around and >>>> find a bootable USB stick and also found a DVD.  Ended up with the DVD >>>> working best.  I already have memtest on /boot.  Thing is, I very rarely >>>> use it.  ;-) >>> So in the scenario you are suggesting, is grub working, giving you a >>> boot choice screen, and your new Gentoo install is not working so >>> you want to choose Knoppix to repair whatever is wrong with  >>> Gentoo?  >> Given I have a 500GB drive, I got plenty of space.  Heck, a 10GB >> partition each is more than enough for either Knoppix or LiveGUI.  I >> could even store info on there about drive partitions and scripts that I >> use a lot.  Jeez, that's a idea.  > Back in the day, I was annoyed that whenever I needed $LIVE_SYSTEM, I had to > reformat an entire USB stick for that. In times when you don’t even get > sticks below 8 GB anymore, I found it a waste of material and useful storage > space. > > And then I found ventoy: https://www.ventoy.net/ > > It is a mini-Bootloader which you install once to a USB device, kind-of a > live system of its own. But when booting it, it dynamically scans the > content of its device and creates a new boot menu from it. So you can put > many ISOs on one device as simple files, delete them, upgrade them, > whatever, and then you can select one to boot from. Plus, the rest of the > stick remains usable as storage, unlike sticks that were dd’ed with an ISO. > My current install is over a decade old.  My /boot partition is about 375MBs.  I should have made it larger but at the time, I booted CD/DVD media when needed.  I didn't have USB sticks at the time.  This time, I plan to make some changes.  If I put Knoppix and/or Gentoo LiveGUI in /boot, it will be larger.  Much larger.  Mark's idea is best tho.  If I can get Grub to work and boot it.  I'll look into your link more.  It sounds interesting but can't figure out exactly how it works.  May check youtube for a video.  Should clear up the muddy water.  Dale :-)  :-)