One device with multiple ISO files. Easy to use: install once, add ISO files and boot computers from it
- BIOS and UEFI support
- Secure Boot support (boot, manage uefi keys)
- Load UEFI drivers
- Launch .efi executables and other boot loaders
- Boot Linux from .iso files
- Boot Windows 10/11 installer from ISO (currently, SB must be disabled during installation)
- Boot Linux installer from network (experimental)
- Boot locally installed systems: Linux, Windows
- Automatically update configuration files
- Without background services
- exFAT file system support
- Automatic detection of compatible ISO images (GRUB loopback)
- Support for systems without loopback support
- Allows customisation of ISO boot menu (for example: custom kernel options)
- Support for USB, SSD, nvme, mmcblk, loop, nbd and virtual disks
- Support for x86, x86_64
A list of tested ISO images can be found here
Go to Releases, download the latest version and unpack the downloaded archive.
Check and install the required packages (in most cases they should be installed by default):
- tar, bzip2, xz
- sgdisk, wipefs
- mkfs.fat, mkfs.exfat, ...
Go to the directory where you extracted the files and run the following at the console
$ ./multios-usb.sh -l
This command will show you the USB devices available on your system.
To install MultiOS-USB, type the following command, replacing /dev/sdX
with your chosen device path.
For example:
$ sudo ./multios-usb.sh /dev/sdX
Recommended installation method for Windows. Go to Releases and download the appropriate file.
Installation details can be found here and in the downloaded archive.
After installation, copy your ISO files to the /ISOs
directory and boot your computer from USB.
You can also add your own configuration files to the /MultiOS-USB/config_priv
directory. They will not be deleted during the automatic MultiOS-USB update.
If you want to change the configuration for a given ISO - copy the one you have chosen from the config folder, paste into config_priv and update it according to your needs.
The updated configuration will be detected automatically.
On the first boot with Secure Boot enabled on each new computer, a MultiOS USB certificate must be installed.
Select MultiOS-EFI
as partition, then browse to the EFI/cert
directory and select MultiOS-USB.cer
, Continue
and confirm (Yes
) key enrolling.
You can also immediately add certificates (keys) from popular distributions in the same way.
If you want to add a certificate later, you can do it by selecting in the Main Menu:
EFI Tools -->
and then Add UEFI key or hash
.
You can add support for new operating systems. No need to reinstall.
Download zip or tar.gz archive and unpack MultiOS-USB repository
To update configuration files, simply type the following command, replacing /dev/sdX
with your chosen device path.
$ ./multios-usb.sh -u /dev/sdX
- Remove all files and directories on your USB in
/MultiOS-USB/config/
- Copy the downloaded files and directories from
config
to the above directory.
- https://gitlab.com/MultiOS-USB - full MultiOS-USB source code
- https://github.com/Mexit/MultiOS-USB - MultiOS-USB releases