====== Multiboot on USB disk ====== **WARNING :** this example is for USB key present as /dev/sdc **WARNING :** if you follow this howto, you will wipe the disk (__make backups before__) - Plug a USB key in your computer - Erase your USB disk * Windows : use http://www.diskwipe.org/ * GNU/Linux : ''dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=128M'' - use Easy2Boot to make a multiboot disk : http://www.easy2boot.com/make-an-easy2boot-usb-drive * On windows, use usbit in order to make a zip compressed raw image of the multiboot USB key (http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool) * On GNU/Linux, use dd : ''dd if=/dev/sdc of=./image.raw bs=128M'' (and compress it with gzip for example) - copy the image on the server, in rescue mode under ubuntu * Windows : use filezilla : https://filezilla-project.org/ * GNU/Linux : use scp - connect the server, in rescue mode under ubuntu, with ssh mv multiboot.imz multiboot.raw.zip unzip -e multiboot.raw.zip If not enough place in ramdisk, mount a disk (not the USB one on the server) and move the compressed image file and uncompress it - Dump the image to the USB drive (/dev/sdc) : ''dd if=./image.img of=/dev/sdc bs=128'' - Boot the server on the USB drive : - run IDRAC, go to boot menu (R220 II : press F11 when prompted) - chose the USB hard disk and... voila !