multiboot

project to create a multi iso boot USB flash drive

running

requiers a user with sudo permissions for now... it's only used to probe for attached storage devices to select USB drives and to check the partition tabel and filesystems.

With that it should be as simple as: python multiboot.py

test

for t in tests/*; do
  echo $(basename $t)
  cat $t | python3 - 
done

requirements

• python-qt5 or python3-pyqt5
• grub2
• pyparted (python-parted)
• filesystem creation tools of your choice, supported:
  • ext4
  • vfat
  • xfs

todo

I still need to correctly detect the actual filesystem on the USB drive although the general default 'vfat' as most USBs come preformatted as.

next need to install grub and write the generated grub.cfg to the seleted USB. something simple like this:

sudo sfdisk /dev/sdb --part-type 1 83
sudo sfdisk -A /dev/sdb 1
sudo mkfs.xfs /dev/sdb1
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb0
sudo grub-install --root-directory/mnt/usb0 /dev/sdb

with

import menu

def CreateBootMenu(mnt_pnt):
    m = [menu.MenuSetup()]
    deb_hook = ""
    gentoo_ex = ''

    m.append(menu.DebianLiveISO(extra=deb_hook))
    sm = menu.SubMenu()
    m.append(sm)
    sm.AddEntry(menu.DebianLiveISO('/debian-xfce.iso',
                            name='Debian Xfce', extra=deb_hook))
    sm.AddEntry(menu.CentOSISO(disk='/dev/sda1'))
    m.append(menu.GentooISO(extra=gentoo_ex))

    with open(mnt_pnt + '/grub/grub.cfg', 'w') as grub_menu:
        for x in m:
            grub_menu.write(x.WriteMenu() + '\n')