I just created an USB drive and would like to check if it’s correctly bootable without rebooting my actual computer. How should I do?
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I just created an USB drive and would like to check if it’s correctly bootable without rebooting my actual computer. How should I do?
Under Linux, you have to know which device path got the drive with for example with
dmesg | tailafter insertion, let’s assume it’s/dev/sdb.Qemu
sudo qemu -hda /dev/sdborsudo qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /dev/sdbfor 64 bits.VirtualBox
then add ~/usb.vmdk as a disk in a VM and boot on it
Don’t hesitate to add other ways to do.