[jungleexplorer]

I was wondering if it is possible to create a multiboot USB drive with UBCD4WIN and another live CD program like Acronis True Image bootable rescue CD ? I have a USB thumb drive with UBCD4WIN (Version 3.50) on it and it is working (created with UBUSB.exe 1.0.46). Is there like a way I could add an ISO image of the Acronis bootable rescue CD to the thumb drive and have it included on the UBCD boot menu? Or would I have partition the thumbdrive and create separate boot loaders? Thanks

[wgjhstt247]

jungleexplorer, on 06 November 2009 - 03:01 PM, said:

I was wondering if it is possible to create a multiboot USB drive with UBCD4WIN and another live CD program like Acronis True Image bootable rescue CD ?

Yes, it is possible. You can multiboot linux kernels or windows images using grub4dos or syslinux.

jungleexplorer, on 06 November 2009 - 03:01 PM, said:

Is there like a way I could add an ISO image of the Acronis bootable rescue CD to the thumb drive and have it included on the UBCD boot menu?

I believe if you use grub4dos (correct me if I'm wrong), you can boot iso files directly. With syslinux, you cannot boot iso files directly, but you can take apart the iso file and boot it. This may be of some help to you, HERE

jungleexplorer, on 06 November 2009 - 03:01 PM, said:

Or would I have partition the thumbdrive and create separate boot loaders?

This is not necessary although people have done this in the past by using the Hitachi Microdrive filter. It could ruin your flash drive so I wouldn't recommend using it.

[jungleexplorer]

OK I used grub4dos. So how do I boot the Acronis ISO directly?

[cdob]

jungleexplorer, on 08 November 2009 - 10:19 PM, said:

So how do I boot the Acronis ISO directly?

Read the previous given link again.

And remember, only some ISO images can boot that way, NOT all.

Try

title Acronis True Image
ls /images/acronis.iso || find --set-root /images/acronis.iso
map /images/acronis.iso (0xff) || map --mem /images/acronis.iso (0xff)
map --hook
chainloader (0xff)

[jungleexplorer]

That worked perfectly. Thank you.