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OS Selector on a USB flash drive

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I want to install OS Selector on a USB flash drive to select one of several partitions on the HD, but OSS doesn't show the USB Flash drive on the list of possible destinations for OSSelector.

I have disk director 11 bought today....

Please help!

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It probably won't, some flash drives do report themselves as removable disks and others don't.

There is a current thread (which I've mislaid at the moment) where Mudcrab lists what needs to be done.

You will need to download something like GRUB4DOS and prepare the drive. The advantage here is that Grub can boot ISO files, so once you have the drive set up, you only need to make a rescue ISO and alter a text file called menu.lst.

Mudcrab's post has more details, but here is an excerpt from mine so you know what to enter.

*****snip************************************************
timeout 10
default 0

title Echo workstation(8398)
map (hd0,0)/Echo_8396055.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)
boot

title Acronis True Image Home 2010 (5055)
map (hd0,0)/ti-13-5055.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)
boot

***snip***************************************************************

In my opinion, installing OSS on a flashdrive is a bad idea (even if it worked). OSS is not a "portable" boot manager.

The GRUB4DOS tutorial can be found here.