Multiboot USB UEFI & Legacy All In One

Multiboot USB UEFI & Legacy All In One
This video shows how to create the ultimate multiboot drive for uefi and legacy in both Windows and Linux!
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[@ChrisTitusTech]

*NEW TOOL NOT FEATURED* - Check out Ventoy as it is very easy and works on any OS - www.ventoy.net/en/index.html *DISCLAIMER:* There are multiple ways to do Multiboot but I picked YUMI because I need Windows, Linux, and Utilities all within a single USB drive. Many other utilities I found just didn't accomplish this task. YUMI was the best for using both Windows and Linux based systems. I just wanted to showcase you can use some Windows tools like YUMI on Linux without issue.

[@Uchiha_Madara1224]

Its a really helpful tool

[@njoroge2061]

Rufus is best for single installation and its fast than Yumi YUMI is the swiss army knife for multiple distro. 10star rating.

[@YannickBo]

The only thing missing is Apples OSX, but I don't think you can live boot that, only pre installed versions on Mac and installing it as a Hackintosh.

[@JosueC730]

I wish YUMI had a native linux version, but it's OK, it just works with WINE.

[@Sight-Beyond-Sight]

I have been looking for something that will let me put iso images so I can install any OS or run live images w/o a crazy installer from a USB drive. I tried Easy2Boot which appears to be working but failed mid-install on a server 2019. I am thinking maybe the drive went bad on me. Thoughts?

[@FlyboyHelosim]

I used YUMI earlier to create a multiboot USB stick with live distributions of Linux and also live antivirus and software tool environments. It was very easy to use and I highly recommend it.

[@mg42sd]

Color it green and call it "The Ultimate Distro Hopper" ;)

[@reaperforever8478]

Wanted this for a very long time , noice

[@fuseteam]

ayyyy it's yumi my favorite universal multiboot installer, i installed my first linux distro with this

[@jhordanmeneses6170]

i recommend ventoy just install drag and drop the iso files, finish now u can boot and install your new OS

[@JoshuaWilkesR]

@Jesson Uy recently installed win10 with ventoy. Had to reset the bios to legacy to get it to boot then reformat the hdd and it worked

[@91redknight91]

I was coming down to drop the exact comment, Ventoy works freaking fantastic for me. UEFI and and legacy machines no problems. i tried some common isos so far (debian, arch, mint with persistent storage, ubuntu and windows 10). Im about to venture into making an arch bootable along side all this stuff.

[@basutapas668]

Me too installed Win 10 with Ventoy...worked well without any problems..

[@LaMuerteGaming]

@@JoshuaWilkesR when I use Ventory, it create a two partition. Is there a problem on it ?

[@TECHENLIGHTENMENTCOM]

Can I put both 32 bit and 64 bit of any distro in Vintoy?

[@benriful]

YUMI is "nice", though I prefer MultiBoot or Easy2Boot. Both have been at this for several years now, unlike Yumi which was stuck in legacy until only recently (my original reason for ditching it nearly 10 years ago). Also very nice that both come with system agnostic tools, no need for Wine. And even more "nice", both also add the ability to simply copy an ISO file direct onto the USB drive (into the ISO folder) which is added to the grub menu at boot time - actually makes this whole process a lot easier. Especially Eas2Boot really only needs you to use its tool once, to generate the boot + efi folders and setup its e2b folder containing all the ISOs. After that a normal file copy works. And this works on all the ISO files I've tried, including even W10.

[@CtrlAltDelQ]

Learn a lot from your videos. Especially Windows 10 installation. Good job. Keep doing what you are doing

[@markh.6687]

Thanks for the video, Chris! Just found this, as I wanted to make a multi-boot with rescue tools, but be able to update the software. Think of a stick with a Win7 recovery tool, Hiren's Rescue (old but works on some things), the Win10 version of Hiren's Rescue (resurrected by fans); Gparted Rescue, etc. And you can use the stick's memory to save rescued files if it's got enough room also. Plus makes notes on what tools do what on each bootable version.

[@radughita1992]

I really recommend ventoy, it's a simple foss utility that formats the pen drive into a small 16 MB FAT16 partition you don't have to worry about and another exFAT to fill the rest, you can simply drag and drop isos on the exfat partition (no unzipping no programs no nothing, just simple drag and drop) and you will be able to boot off of them, and you can also put other sorts of files on the exfat partiton for general purpose storage so you will be able to use it as a normal pendrive as well as a boot pendrive

[@ashwoodson1649]

I have tried so many different Linux usb methods. This is perfect. Thank you!!!

[@larrywilliams8010]

I've used MultibootUSB in th past, it worked well and had a Linux native port. I never tried comparing its EFI boot and legacy boot, thoough

[@john_turner]

THANK YOU I have been trying to get this to work uefi for a week

[@harrymason1053]

I am a distro hopper so I'm pretty familiar with this topic. I have 3 computers and about a dozen hard drives, a couple of disk docking stations, a few ssd drives, and several dozen MicroSD cards and thumb drives. Well, I saw your video and I immediately went out and searched the web for a similar program and I won't say which one I chose but I nearly ruined two thumb drives. After using their program to put multiple OSs on thumb drives, they would not boot, even though I tried many attempts to get the right BIOS/uefi settings and grub installations . Then I tried to delete everything and reformat the thumb drives. I couldn't format them because after stumbling around a bit in Linux and Windows 10, I had to use Partman to put a new MBR on the drive. It was the only way I could format them with FAT32. Win 10 was helpless with it.

[@theblackcatvieweraccount5402]

I am going to use this information to have multiple distros of Linux on a 64GB flash drive. What's my flavor of Linux today? Peppermint.

[@MostlyRCSlovakia]

I used Yumi a lot before I got my USB kit with virtual DVD iso support. Yumi was working for 95% isos for me. for some it just did not want to boot. I will give it a shot, especially UEFI is nice, as I can also havr Windows 10 UEFI installation there...

[@deejayMarks]

Ventoy - just came across it An open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files, you don't need to format the disk again and again, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it. Both Legacy BIOS and UEFI are supported in the same way

[@oldgeezer4778]

Thank You Chris!!! It's so nice to learn new things!!

[@huhu6759]

Ventory is the best multiboot app. forget all other apps and deal with ventory....it doesnt need any skills just install and format your usb and cpy paste ya iso. boot. i have been dealing with bunch of multiboot stuffs but this ventory is the best i have come across

[@pyarkelamhe2867]

but ventory does not work in secure boot and gpt partitio

[@see_conspiracy_inevery_tri6991]

@pyarkelamhe2867 it does if you choose when installing it, but both gpt and mbr at the same time, no. Checked just today. Turned of legacy in my bios and it doesn't appear in the boot menu

[@see_conspiracy_inevery_tri6991]

​@@pyarkelamhe2867but the problem is if you choose gpt mode when installing ventoy now u can't boot from old computers

[@Jimmy_Jones]

I had never heard of Parted Magic. Interesting that it runs in RAM.

[@DJNightchild]

Keep in mind though, that PMagic is non-gratis software. It's about $10,- for the infinite use of the software ($31,- if you want 1 year of updates annd access to development builds). Most of it's utility software can be found in GParted Live and Clonezilla Live for free ;)

[@swapnilkanyal]

tiny core Linux distribution runs very well on my 25 year old computer with 128mb of ram so I think you should check this linux distribution out because I want to know what you think about it

[@zoltanc3861]

Easy2Boot is what I recommend. I have a dedicated USB stick for it, with XP, 7, 10, clonezilla and a couple of linux distros. It's a great tool to have if you work with lots of different computers.

[@Henk717]

Tried it out right before he uploaded the vid and fell in love with it. I love their mbr partition table hack to have virtual usb sticks within a usb stick. I can now ditch drivedroid and go back to UEFI multibooting ;D

[@Henk717]

@ XP Corporate keys work just fine, they do not need activation. I don't think anyone would object to using something like DAZ Loader to activate Windows 7 if you have a genuine license for it and need to activate it for whatever reason.

[@alal792]

I just posted the same comment, been using it years...so far everything else is just garbage/buggy in compare...HOWEVER I USE AN OLDER VERSION, as the newer ones seem to choke on Win10 installs...so there is that to remember 1.06a or there-a-bouts.

[@Henk717]

@@alal792 I use imgPTN files for the Windows 10 stuff, works great :D

[@alal792]

@@Henk717 also there is the flagged exe in the program, I believe the authors reason for that, and so far have found it to be clean in all my usage (which is years).

[@savoyblue777]

Thank you Chris you have helped me out a lot

[@papabones8753]

Absolutely interesting that something like this exists. Though, I don't see myself using one as most Distros I use on USB are super, super small(like Puppy on a 1GB USB).

Oh, coming from what you stated, I know you'd avoid CentOS Server like the plague. I dl'ed the iso, & it's just over 7 gig in size. Fortunately, at the computer store where I live, they sell 8.5 gig 240 minute 1-8 speed DVD+R dual discs. No need for installing an internal blue-ray drive. About $28.00 for 25 blank discs. They had the last pack on the shelf. I guess they're becoming a feasible substitute over a blue-ray drive & the cost of blank discs.

[@steveretiredandcranky]

Love it!!! Made mine using Easy2boot.

[@lepricated]

thats what I use

[@dr.mikehughes9874]

Easy2boot seems way involved. Trying to change the menus the way you want them to be.

[@iyeetsecurity922]

I love Ventoy! Now I have 16 extra USB drives!

[@black11189]

I'm not sure to understand how you can make a usb stick bootablr for both EUFI and legacy, Yumi site say it either one or them not both

[@adminbay1526]

Ive tried it before. I put linux and windows in stick. But when i boot it only work to the last os i put in usb. If i click linux distro it still boot on the last os

[@Ratteler]

So I picked up a 128GB drive for this, but my Elementary OS is not supported. I tried manually adding it as a Debein, but no luck. Also, can the drive be partitioned in some way so that a I can keep application installs separate from distros? I would love a follow up.

[@steve6375]

Easy2Boot supports over 350 different payloads and UEFI booting. www.easy2boot.com

[@leenorson5554]

I don't want to sound needy, but you should do a Multiboot Easy2Boot tutorial and make custom grub themes. A Hax0r theme :3

[@unpaintedcanvas]

This looks very interesting. I have multiple USBs with different Linux distros on my keychain, so this seems like a super nice option in terms of portability.

[@switchninja3979]

I can't find any options to install Elementary os,parrot os and kali linux in the os selector . Could you please help me out here

[@camerontgore]

So with this implementation can you update the environments? In the past I've tried to live off of live usb environments but nothing was ever persistent from boot to boot. Saved files, updates, the like.

[@angelrivera8013]

THIS IS AWESOME! Might save me the trouble of modifying the ASUS Bios to include the "Launch CSM" option. Thank you! 🙏🏼

[@cepi24]

Have you tried Ventoy? If yes why is your solution better? Thanks

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Just found ventoy... It is a much better solution!

[@xnonsuchx]

8:22 The whole porpoise??? I think you need a tidalee for that, as long as it's not depreciated. ;-)

[@dingokidneys]

Why are you casting nasturtiums? I think he's tortoise a really cool thing there. *

[@TheNexusOfEvil]

I love yumi, i have my ultimate usb stick on me all the time

[@NaganathanSandramohan]

Very informative Video. Thank you

[@kennych1992]

Thank you man for the solution, I was looking for something like this for a very long time

[@noobsaibot8723]

This is particularity helpful. Back then it dint work well all the time , yumi that is but im sure by now it works like a bomb. Good video. This is very useful. Thanks.

[@cyberagent009]

Hi Chris, how did you customise that linux terminal to show the current directory in multiple colors. (Path to the current location prompt ie Titus>studio>~Downloads breadcrumb like things)

[@AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Chris. Very good tool. And about the only way I would Windows installed on something.

[@IAMSolaara]

Why dont you tackle PXE booting? I've been using it for a while and it changed a lot how easy it is to just load an OS without constantly formatting usb sticks, this waythere's less wear on them

[@coegj]

As far I windows is concerned using Yumi is the only reason I need Windows at all. I would like you to make a video about creating multi-boot flashdrives with Linux/Ubuntu OS' and never needing Windows again. It's no problem to make a single bootable flash drive with Startup disk creator or and such, but I can't figure how to use MultiBoot Utility with Linux/Ubuntu, it just never seems to work for me. How about do that video, I know Yumi works, but you need a Windows OS, eckkkkkk.

Try running YUMI with Wine on Linux itself.

[@DalePothen]

It would be great if you could make a detailed video on bitwarden how to set it up and all as well as Vivaldi's browser and must use extension i have learned alot from your videos and all looking forward to learn more

[@Gornius]

Finally a good reason to buy 64 GiB flash drive.

[@PS_Tube]

Great tutorial video. Good job.

[@brianmarshall7214]

Great instructional video as usual😀👍👌 Thanks Chris.

[@damienj210]

Chris, What is the distro you are using in this video? Thanks.

[@oabdulsslam]

Thanks Chris!!

[@ierosgr]

Any thoughts why it doesnt let you choose Pop Os? After insertion Create button is greyd out. Iso is 2.4gb not over 4 that would make sense with fat32 limitations Edit:Found it out...closed the program re-open it chose Ubuntu and tick show all iso's and select the iso you want. Somehow it made the Create re appear and be able to press it

[@fouadhoblos3611]

Several OS from one USB: nice! yummy!

[@gentoguy8749]

can you tell me sir what is the OS ARE YOU USING terminal and side bar are fantastic

[@omgxskull]

Hi, loved the video. what linux distro are you using?

[@aminokomputer]

thanks for sharing the tutorial brother. i found aplication can make a multibootable (windows, linux, dlcd, hiren) and support to boot in UEFI and Legacy in single FD. i make the tutorial in my video. and now, in my computer store use this bootable method to reinstal windows or just troubleshooter tool's

[@steve6375]

Very useful comment! Really helpful. I am sure you have helped lots of people. We all think you are great.

[@AbduleeFtw]

Hey Cris I know my question is not related to this video but do you have any resources to learn Linux server adminstration?

[@minster586]

how did you get that the matrix screen saver

[@sirnigelcogs]

Many file browsers will allow you to format USB drives directly through the file browser.

[@kalifornia909]

I had issues with Manjaro and Yumi has anyone got any tips or tricks for manjaro

[@Douglas-hw8is]

Great! Many thanks but does not solve my problem of a thumb-drive that, after formatting, is no longer detected by my Ubuntu pc. It is however detected by my windows 10 laptop. Any suggestions?

[@karlscheel3500]

But will such a USB be bootable in Secure Boot Mode?

[@Mr._.1001]

Wow great video with nice new transitions😉 I see what you did there😅

[@praveshishere]

Which linux were you using?

[@gumiged]

cant get more than one distro on usb...When I put another distro on, then it overwrite usb again. Why?

[@edwinuy633]

kinda lost with the part where you are showing the legacy bit and booting from it, are they from the same USB drive and from the same distros that you installed using YUMI UEFI? or not?

[@digitalsparky]

I hear 'start formatting' come from Chris' mouth and I think... oh god, not again..

[@sphchurch]

I have a toughbook with a couple of drive caddys. I want to make a drive and put about 10 Linux installs on it. Every try that? I wonder if I could do this using yumi? The drive is SATA I thought if I could bring it in through USB it might work what do you think?

[@Manos.N]

Hello sir, i am interested in making a multiboot dvd instead of USB. Does this app supports that? If not, do you have some app in mind to recommend for that purpose? Thanks in advance.

[@George_K1]

How about Ventoy?

[@fooluke6522]

Which distro and desktop enviroment are you using?

[@pvman2]

Question: If i want to add a full .iso of RHEL or Oracle Linux to my USB Multiboot, Since they are CentOS based, is it best to choose CentOS as the distribution? If so, which is best to pick, CentOS Live or CentOS Minimal?

[@jasonbeals42]

So I am trying to do this for a 2TB thumb drive (2192 GB when I clear the drives using diskpart) and I cannot get Ventoy or YUMI to work for the life of me. I have been playing a lot with formatting this drive in this whole learning process -- maybe somehow I screwed something up? Doesn't seem likely that I cooked the drive.. The only way to get Ventoy to work is to create the .vtsi file and flash it to the drive using RUFUS, but then I do not see an option to boot the .iso file via UEFI during boot loading (after copying the .iso onto the ventoy drive). Additionally, Windows keeps doing weird things like adding a letter to the UEFI partition of the thumb drive (mounting it?) after I used RUFUS to flash Ventoy .vtsi to the drive.... Don't really know what's going on. My goal is to install Ubuntu Desktop alongside a couple other Linux Distros (Debian (as outlined in "how to install linux the right way"), Ubuntu Server and Windows 10 and possible a disk editing system tool. I have a large drive so I'd like to be able to learn and use different Linux distros and be able to reinstall/wipe their partition if I screw anything up, all the while keeping my "shareable" (between distributions) linux files safe during the OS reinstall process. Is this possible? Would love some help (I originally posted in the other video comment thread accidentally, lol)

[@pa1kumarbhukya]

Can we do a windows 10 and ubuntu multiboot usb?will it work fine?

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Yes, this is why I choose Yumi instead of many other projects out there.

[@kurtislacroix3570]

@@ChrisTitusTech I've been having trouble with windows 10 iso, as they're too big for fat32.... Windows 10 iso is about 5GiB.

[@bertr6741]

i had the same issue just like you.. it cannot copy windows 10 on a fat32 formatted, what I did was formatted the flash drive to ntfs but some installers failed.. i don't know if I did it correctly..

[@raulgirao1458]

Hey Chris, greetings! Really nice video. Tks a lot. By the way, how about a basic "step by step" video on btrfs for beginers?? I mean from install to creating the "pools" and doing snapshots. I tried a gui app but no success. I really apreciate your videos and i'll be really glad if you could do as suggested. Be well!

[@hoterychannel]

Before watch the video I thought that maybe it about creating multiboot under Linux... But no, it's about windows tool under wine! If so, why not offer something like easy2boot, it allows to launch .iso file directly, just copy it on flash drive and "enter" in menu and it works.. often works(yeah, with efi, it's require reboot, after "enter"..). But I personally prefer to use iodd's hard drive case that can mount iso and shows itself as regular USB cdrom and works almost on every pc (that supports USB cdrom). With (multi) boot flash, there's anyway some chances that just fail to boot

[@wkll7711]

The partition table is msdos. Isnt that means MBR? If my boot mode is set to pure UEFI (no csm) will it work? I am asking this because I want secure boot and secure boot need pure UEFI and that shoukd require GPT paetitioned usb....?

[@screamingiraffe]

good information and well done video. Thank you for sharing

[@xmaroc]

i have a problem exfat dont work on gparted on usb hhd 7tb

[@GileadMaerlyn]

Hi ! This video is very interesting, I would like to put a few distros on my new USB drive, but one of them is missing from the Yumi list: Pop OS. Is there a way to add it on the drive anyway?

[@soulofhogwarts]

Just use ventoy.

[@shivajaiswal985]

What did you search before formatting

[@shanamzzz]

Did you guys see a shadow passing by him @6:35 ?

[@unrealone1]

I have a PIPO W3F Dual OS Tablet Windows. Would love to know how to scrub the window and just put linux on it? As the tablet has only 32 gigs of storage so useless for windows. How to boot from USB with a tablet?

[@emperorSbraz]

depends on the machine but in a case i solved recently but after disabling secure boot in bios it added options for selecting a boot device.

[@unrealone1]

@@emperorSbraz But how to boot from USB with a tablet?

[@muddyexport5639]

Good job!

[@mohangavande1533]

Can we create persistent storage for these distros?

[@sweb82]

Is there a possibilty to Create a live linux Stick which works with PC and MacBook?

[@pepeshopping]

UEFI is still in Beta. Wake me up when released. I just don’t bother with slow and faulty USB drives. I use a Zalman enclosure that has virtual cdrom emulation and carry everything in the 2TB HD.

[@igorthelight]

USB 3.0 are 200/140 Mb read/write

[@chepalitos5841]

Hi. Is the best way to go UEFI boot for multiple linux distro in one HSS?

[@64242359]

does this mean to create multiple live OS on USB disk or just multi boot installer?

[@jwinc7]

This is a good video. My work has been using Yumi legacy boot for a couple years now and we are starting to transition things to UEFI. We are having trouble getting VMware ESXi to boot UEFI using Yumi. We have the latest iso. Any suggestions on a multiboot for UEFI that could include Linux, VMware ESXi, and Windows? Thank you.

[@zamSEG]

hello sir, may i know what is the differences between pendrivelinux yumi vs ventoy? which one is better? sorry for this noob questions, i'm new to this. just want to make sure it can run live linux rather than installation. thank you and have a nice day. :)

[@mjgritli]

thats cool, How do you capture screen of a boot screen though ? thanks

[@srendull8227]

One question: it is possible to create multiple win iso but when is going to boot select which ISO you want . Instead of legacy use UEFI ?

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Ventoy

[@alfa23one]

Duuuude that's siiick! 🤯🤯🤯

[@infinitepawer]

Hi is there any performance different for a HDD

[@eco-terrorist]

Daft question, when you stopped “yummi” how do you had more to the original usb. + could you make a awesome live disk that we could install on low memory laptops. I had a go at it and failed, still a noobie when it’s Linux. More of a mac user.

[@qureshibasit]

is any other application UEFI and Legacy mode for multiboot in one pen drive can we make

[@sarmadahsan869]

I used it for years but its not Legacy + UEFI at the same time. Now i am using AIOBoot, Because it can be boot from Legacy as well as UEFI at the same time.

[@yfras]

There is one problem with YUMI - you need to use fat32 partition to create multiboot USB. But if your windows 10 iso takes more than 4GB (and it does), you can't add that iso to multiboot, because fat32 is restricted by 4GB single file maximum.

[@archishmannag]

That's why ventoy is better. It uses exFAT partition.

[@grntvjn4452]

Yumi has an exfat version that can do >4GB

[@TeaMHackeRPiratE]

ethos(not free 😭) or any better for eth mine?

[@zExoRandArcade]

GREAT VIDEO! any chance you can do a video showing how to use this tool to multi boot from a hdd with multiple OS's?

Hey bro, did you figure out how to multi boot from a HDD with multiple OS's? I am looking to do the same with a 2TB External HDD.

[@tryptex]

Can you set up persistence with YUMI?