Boot LIVE USB Linux Ubuntu or Asahi direct from USB

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Native Ubuntu installations for Apple silicon hardware

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Boot LIVE USB Linux Ubuntu or Asahi direct from USB #126

Open jittygitty opened 4 months ago

jittygitty commented 4 months ago

Is it possible to boot AsahiLinux or UbuntuLinux direct from USB as a LIVE USB boot iso?

Many of us I think would like to boot LIVE ISO's or full persistent Linux installs direct from USB.

We don't want to touch the internal drive, other than perhaps just to tell internal m2 "U-Boot" to load/boot from USB.

Is this possible? If so, any links on how to do it?

jaggernaut007 commented 2 months ago

Is it possible? I am trying rn

tobhe commented 2 months ago

I ran some tests recently and built an image that might work. It is available at https://files.tobhe.de/ubuntu/ubuntu-24.04-preinstalled-desktop-arm64%2Basahi.img.

Keep in mind you will still have to go through curl https://alx.sh | sh and choose the m1n1+ u-boot uefi only option to get a boot environment that supports USB booting.

There unfortunately is no way to boot from USB without installing anything on your actual disk.