appwiki:usbsys

General info about usb boot system

Generally, there are 2 types OS bootable from USB.

  • Linux
  • Window PE (pre-install environment)

Although other OS,like Mac OS X can boot from USB directly, but a Mac compatible system required.

Multi-OS USB booting solution

  • find USB device NO.: run “diskmgmt.msc”, normally from 0 to 9.
  • create vmdk file (virtual machine disk) that links to the USB device. (Windows as example)
    REM  sudo / admin rights
    REM physical drive 0-9 depends on your device NO. found, for this case, it is "PhysicalDrive1"
    VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename \VM\myUSB.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive1
  • launch VirtualBox with Admin rights to create a virtual machine that can use the VMDK file as a bridge to read USB device as internal device.

Bootable USB drive system setup

  • appwiki/usbsys.txt
  • Last modified: 2021/08/28 08:34
  • by ying