![]() Booting small Linux-based distros such as Tinfoil Hat Linux and Tiny Core Linux in the RAM disk is also possible. ![]() This method can be used to boot exotic operating systems such as Kolibri, MenuetOS, DixOS which are written in assembly language. In addition, with the help of memdisk utility of the SYSLINUX bootloader it can load any ISO/floppy disk image of sufficiently small size directly to RAM and chainload the boot process. It cannot boot all ISO files, but at least ArchLinux and Ubuntu seem to be bootable. On contrary, GRUB bootloader, when properly tuned, is capable of loading some of the Linux distributions directly from the ISO image stored on the drive. ![]() However, the ISO image relies on the "El Torito bootable CD specification" according to which BIOS boots sector #17 (sector size is 2048 bytes) of the CD. The flash drive won't boot, because BIOS sees it as a hard disk and requires bootstrap code in the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the drive. $ sudo dd if = Ubuntu - 10.04 - desktop - i386.
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