Current hardware and ~20 LiveCDs - tried out within mbusb, on 10th and 7th gen Intel

[drandreaskrueger]

Fantastic tool, multibootusb. Thank you so much. I already love my new powerful USB stick. Having ordered rather recent hardware, I had downloaded many Linux ISOs pre-emptively, hoping that at least one would work. And now tried them all. Perhaps you are interested, what is working, and what not? The "new machine" is a 10th generation intel with an NVIDIA card. Where I say "old machine", it's a 7th gen with Intel graphics only. Both notebooks.

With multibootUSB it's a pity that especially clonezilla (partitions backup system) and MX Linux (rank 1 in distrowatch) are not yet working via multibootUSB. Here are my observations:

MultibootUSB boots these perfectly, even on the new machine:

• tails-amd64-4.13.img
• Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-33-1.2.iso
• manjaro-gnome-20.2-201203-linux59.iso
• CentOS-8.2.2004-x86_64-minimal.iso
• CentOS-8.2.2004-x86_64-boot.iso
• kali-linux-2020.4-live-amd64.iso
• systemrescue-7.01-amd64.iso
• boot-repair-disk-64bit.iso
• extix-20.8-64bit-lxqt-nvidia-1300mb-200804.iso (but then startx fails)
• fossapup64-9.5.iso (took LONG without anything visible happening - but eventually it started just fine)

MultibootUSB does NOT boot these on the NEW machine ...

BUT it does just fine on the old machine:

• debian-live-10.6.0-amd64-gnome.iso

MultibootUSB does not boot these BUT ...

... when I flash the ISO directly (fdisk -l; dd if=./name.iso of=/dev/sdb) on a separate stick, they are booting just fine, and also on the new machine:

• clonezilla-live-20201208-groovy-amd64.iso (I am using that A LOT so it's important for me)
• MX-19.3_ahs_x64.iso

MultibootUSB does NOT boot these on BOTH ...

... both the new and the old machine, and not tried on separate stick:

• antiX-19.3_x64-full.iso
• MX-19.3_ahs_x64.iso
• Voyager-GE-20.10.amd64.iso
• ubuntu-20.10-desktop-amd64.iso
• endeavouros-2020.09.20-x86_64.iso
• comodo_rescue_disk_2.0.261647.1.iso
• gparted-live-1.1.0-8-amd64.iso

Might all not be news for you devs, but perhaps someone in a similar situation like me can make use of this list.

Thanks a lot. A great piece of software!
Andreas

[Gouzi001]

Clonezilla works since ever.

You can always select GRUB 2 and run .iso from memdisk. (Ubuntu 20.xx)...

[galenthurber]

running 9.2.0 here on T500 Thinkpad
USB partition 1 ext4 [is readonly after boot] multiboot location
partition 2 vfat [data] storing iso for reading, burning ...

not working
fossapup64-9.5.iso gives a grub menu, tab for help etc.. no puppy entries
redorscue3.0.2

works:
bionicpuppy64 & 32
gpartedlive1.1.0-6 686