![]() Later, though, I found that while this might work for some tools, it could result in a failed Linux installation, if I was using the USB drive as a Linux installer. At first, I thought the best solution was to set the computer to boot in Legacy (i.e., BIOS) rather than UEFI mode use my YUMI drive for installation or maintenance as needed and then return the computer to UEFI mode. The conclusion reached here is that none of the three tools reviewed below offered a solution for booting most tools in a UEFI system. I couldn’t use that approach in this case because (a) a DVD was too small to contain all of the tools I wanted to install and (b) in any case, my laptop didn’t have an optical disc drive. Even so, the multiboot DVD did provide a workaround. Later, I suspected that the problem may have been that I wasn’t yet aware of the difficulty or impossibility of booting a UEFI (i.e., non-BIOS) system using a USB device designed for use on BIOS (a/k/a Legacy) systems. As described in another post, I had worked up such a DVD for my own use on a laptop that did not seem to want to boot from USB. ![]() Note that it was also possible to create a multiboot DVD or, possibly, a multiboot Blu-Ray disc. The focus here was on “multiboot” devices, meaning that a single USB drive might contain multiple tools and installers, with a menu allowing me to choose which one I wished to boot. The alternate boot system might be a Linux “live” CD it might be a diagnostic tool, or an ISO made from a Windows installation DVD it might be something else. This post talks about using USB drives to boot computers with something other than the installed operating system. ![]() (Note: a more recent post updates part of this post.) ![]()
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