Episode 602 – Grub2 and VM-fu
Managing ESX(i) with a cross platform adobe air application. Matt reviews BlueBear’s Kodiak. Want to boot ISO files directly from USB? Darren explores the options with Grub Legacy and Grub2, plus tweaks for Persistent installations, nested menus, notes and more.
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Matt Lestock reviews BlueBear‘s Adobe Air-based application for managing mixed virtualization environments. Kodiak currently supports VMware ESX servers with Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V compatibility coming soon. This cross platform management application is pretty slick!
Darren Kitchen discusses the evolution of his favorite boot loader, Grub, and points out USB installation options and Grub2′s loopback option. He also discusses persistent changes, nested menus, and notes.
Darren also checks out LiveUSB, a tool that promises to automate the process of building a USB Multi Boot tool. Note: The site and application are all in French.
Ive been waiting all week to see this grub2 episode.
Nice episode as allways guys,
BTW Check this out:
>http://www.instructables.com/id/Hide-passwords-in-an-old-floppy-disk/
Since Darren came up with the idea of doing a Java segment, why not? I wouldnt make it like a tutorial for noobs but basic stuff about different frameworks? Java, php,C,…
I will try to contact the guys of “Multiboot et Modcustom”, and see if they plan to release an English version. Maybe I can help.
Thx for episode guys, but really persistant mode… isn’t that kinda old news
. Lets get back to cutting edge shall we!
thx
HomReker
I KNOW SOME FRENCH!!!
I’ve tried the french version and… Nothing
I’m trying creat a “multipass” with the Ubuntu (9.04 or 9.10), Fedora (just in case), Hirens boot cd, Kaspersky live cd, drweb cureit live cd… I think I’m not forget nothing.
You can totally see me on the background of the monitor! Busch Gardens trip was epic!
WhisperNet is 3G these days, actually. It wasn’t with the 1st generation Kindle, but starting with 2nd gen device it is.
I went to the BlueBear Web site to download a copy of Kodiak and while registering for a “key” to download their app, was told I needed an invitation from a current user. Matt, how bout an invite!
Would you please repost the process to install grub2 on your usb.
Including the “Mount” code….
Thanks, Love the show!
6@73|2 |3`/73
Hey HAK 5 crew i recently put alot of work into a social network (www.worldwideprogrammersunited.ning.com) i wanted to know if any of you would please join my social network. It is basically a social network where poeple can come and help people with their coding or even general computer problems or just chat. It would be a real honour if you guys would join thanks.
What happened to Matt’s section. I thought he was going to carry on his behind ESXi management with the cabling, switches etc. But nothing appeared to happen this episode.
I could be wrong but that’s one issue I have with Hak5. You have these great ideas saying you’re going to do these series sections and they last one episode and are never continued.
The network redesign and things like that are coming, but there wasn’t enough time to try and force fit everything into this episode.
While we do plan on different segments and series, we’re going to make sure that in season 6 we give each segment enough time in a given episode.
We’ll try to be more clear on when you can expect series episodes.
Matt
Coolies. Still love the show. Although honestly didn’t like this episode, sorry but being honest. Can’t quite think why I didn’t like it. I think it’s just there was nothing in it I was interested in. But I’m looking forward to your network redesign series Matt, really looking forward to that.
Great episode, I hadn’t heard of Kodiak before, would be perfect for our shop.
Happen to have a spare invite in your pocket Matt?
Greg
Hey guys!
I was trying to find some info around the web on how to make that multi-boot USB drive as Darren was talking about. My problem was that I’m running Windows box and I couldn’t really “copy-paste” the commands that Darren used. I did stumble upon something called Grub4DOS. If I’m not mistaken it’s the same thing as Grub, but
a) It can be loaded from M$ Windows and
b) One can have a menu that will boot from an ISO file.
I’ve seen a lot of complaints about Grub2, but no so many about Grub4DOS.
I thought this might be might worth checking this out.
If anyone is interested, I can post my “menu.lst” file that has references to the ISO files.
P.S. Sorry if this has been covered someplace else.
dimaj
hi,
MultiBoot is now available in English
translation is almost complete…
http://translate.google.fr/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fliveusb.info%2Fdotclear%2F&sl=fr&tl=en&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8
to install ubuntu since:
cd /tmp
wget http://liveusb.info/customultiboot-v2/customultiboot-v2.tar.bz2
tar xjf customultiboot-v2.tar.bz2
rm customultiboot-v2.tar.bz2
cd customultiboot-v2
sudo ./install.sh
[...] multibooting on a single partition using the multipass methods describe in hak5 episode 524 and episode 602. Unfortunately I discovered my fancy semi-new MacBook (now called a Macbook Pro after the renaming) [...]
ENGLISH IS UP
I followed frafa directions to the letter, *note after install, installer asked if i wanted to install missing tools, and I said yes. I don’t know if you need to with your install as I am a fairly new to Ubuntu.
if your a complete ubuntu noob,like me copy past in terminal line by line
cd /tmp
wget http://liveusb.info/customultiboot-v2/customultiboot-v2.tar.bz2
tar xjf customultiboot-v2.tar.bz2
rm customultiboot-v2.tar.bz2
cd customultiboot-v2
sudo ./install.sh
after install missing tools
have iso’s on destinaon usb and read all help topics take about 15 mins and your Compressed.
HAK 5 folks Super Dorks!, Love your Shows! Even my wife thinks your show is good and she is not a tech fan.(
Latest version of the customultiboot-v2 is in English
any one got the Customulti boot to work, I get a errour=parted every time. (Ubuntu 9.04 “wubi,install”) The folks at customulti boot are very responsive to there emails but its all French
I should have paid attention to in French class. 
any one got it working? by that i mean made a working multi-boot usb with multi distros . . .
For those that wants to try out bluebear, click on this link http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/04/22/bluebear-kodiak-whats-up/ and click on the here for the invitation link.
I was getting the “Error:parted” problem as well, I was able to trace it down to an if statement in multiboot.sh.
To Fix:
nano /usr/local/share/customultiboot-v2/multiboot/multiboot.sh
Replace:
if [ ! "$(parted /dev/${CLE_USB} unit compact print | grep "512o/512o" 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
With this:
if [ ! "$(parted /dev/${CLE_USB} unit compact print | grep "512B/512B" 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
At the time of this post, this statement is used on lines 1085 and 1235. In case you missed it I’m replacing 512o/512o with 512B/512B, which I’m guessing has something to do w/ the language difference.
What Evan said worked like a charm. I am running Ubuntu 9.04 in a VM and multiboot-v2 is proving to be a very easy way to create a USB multipass. Kudos to those who translated all that French!
Hi,
isn’t there someone willing to send me an invite for kodiak ? I am really interested in trying it…
Thanks.