Comments on: Episode 602 – Grub2 and VM-fu

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:13:29 +0000

Hi,

isn’t there someone willing to send me an invite for kodiak ? I am really interested in trying it…

Thanks.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:02:06 +0000

What Evan said worked like a charm. I am running Ubuntu 9.04 in a VM and multiboot-v2 is proving to be a very easy way to create a USB multipass. Kudos to those who translated all that French!

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:13:22 +0000

I was getting the "Error:parted" problem as well, I was able to trace it down to an if statement in multiboot.sh. To Fix:


nano /usr/local/share/customultiboot-v2/multiboot/multiboot.sh

Replace:


if [ ! "$(parted /dev/${CLE_USB} unit compact print | grep "512o/512o" 2>/dev/null)" ]; then

With this:


if [ ! "$(parted /dev/${CLE_USB} unit compact print | grep "512B/512B" 2>/dev/null)" ]; then

At the time of this post, this statement is used on lines 1085 and 1235. In case you missed it I'm replacing 512o/512o with 512B/512B, which I'm guessing has something to do w/ the language difference.

By: Tre

Tre — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:49:39 +0000

For those that wants to try out bluebear, click on this link http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/04/22/bluebear-kodiak-whats-up/ and click on the here for the invitation link.

By: sone

sone — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:23:03 +0000

any one got the Customulti boot to work, I get a errour=parted every time. (Ubuntu 9.04 “wubi,install”) The folks at customulti boot are very responsive to there emails but its all French I should have paid attention to in French class.

any one got it working? by that i mean made a working multi-boot usb with multi distros . . .

By: MajickMan

MajickMan — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:27:37 +0000

Latest version of the customultiboot-v2 is in English

By: sonebezi

sonebezi — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:02:31 +0000

ENGLISH IS UP
I followed frafa directions to the letter, *note after install, installer asked if i wanted to install missing tools, and I said yes. I don’t know if you need to with your install as I am a fairly new to Ubuntu.

if your a complete ubuntu noob,like me copy past in terminal line by line

cd /tmp
wget http://liveusb.info/customultiboot-v2/customultiboot-v2.tar.bz2
tar xjf customultiboot-v2.tar.bz2
rm customultiboot-v2.tar.bz2
cd customultiboot-v2
sudo ./install.sh

after install missing tools

have iso’s on destinaon usb and read all help topics take about 15 mins and your Compressed.

HAK 5 folks Super Dorks!, Love your Shows! Even my wife thinks your show is good and she is not a tech fan.(

By: Mac makes me sad. « Broken Bytes

Mac makes me sad. « Broken Bytes — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:09:57 +0000

[...] multibooting on a single partition using the multipass methods describe in hak5 episode 524 and episode 602. Unfortunately I discovered my fancy semi-new MacBook (now called a Macbook Pro after the renaming) [...]

By: frafa

frafa — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:32:19 +0000

hi,
MultiBoot is now available in English
translation is almost complete…

http://translate.google.fr/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fliveusb.info%2Fdotclear%2F&sl=fr&tl=en&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8

to install ubuntu since:

cd /tmp
wget http://liveusb.info/customultiboot-v2/customultiboot-v2.tar.bz2
tar xjf customultiboot-v2.tar.bz2
rm customultiboot-v2.tar.bz2
cd customultiboot-v2
sudo ./install.sh

By: dimaj

dimaj — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:36:24 +0000

Hey guys!

I was trying to find some info around the web on how to make that multi-boot USB drive as Darren was talking about. My problem was that I’m running Windows box and I couldn’t really “copy-paste” the commands that Darren used. I did stumble upon something called Grub4DOS. If I’m not mistaken it’s the same thing as Grub, but
a) It can be loaded from M$ Windows and
b) One can have a menu that will boot from an ISO file.

I’ve seen a lot of complaints about Grub2, but no so many about Grub4DOS.

I thought this might be might worth checking this out.

If anyone is interested, I can post my “menu.lst” file that has references to the ISO files.

P.S. Sorry if this has been covered someplace else.

dimaj

By: Greg Moeller

Greg Moeller — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:41:58 +0000

Great episode, I hadn’t heard of Kodiak before, would be perfect for our shop.
Happen to have a spare invite in your pocket Matt?

Greg