Ade Malsasa Akbar contact
Senior author, Open Source enthusiast.
Saturday, July 4, 2020 at 14:14





In late 2019 I successfully ship multiboot drives with Zorin OS as one among many operating systems within them. I have made the articles in making them multibootable most notably openSUSE, Deepin, and Slackware, as they were actually not supported by GLIM multiboot maker. However, I forgot that I have not made such article about Zorin as I thought I have. Now I remembered it in 2020 and this is the article you can learn once again to make it bootable like what I am currently doing with my latest Zorin articles. Enjoy!




Get Zorin OS


Download it at zorinos.com.


Change inc-zorin.cfg


Create a new file named inc-zorin.cfg in your flash drive's boot/grub/ directory and save code text below.
# Zorin
for isofile in $isopath/zorin/Zorin-*.iso; do
  if [ ! -e "$isofile" ]; then break; fi
  regexp \
    --set 1:isoname \
    --set 2:version \
    --set 3:variant \
    --set 4:arch \
    "^${isopath}/zorin/(Zorin-([^-]+)-([^-]+)-([^-]+)\.iso)\$" "${isofile}"
  menuentry "Zorin OS ${version} ${arch} ${variant}" "${isofile}" "${isoname}" --class zorin {
    set isofile=$2
    set isoname=$3
    echo "Using ${isoname}..."
    loopback loop $isofile
    linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=${isofile} quiet splash
    initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz4*
  }
done

Change grub.cfg


Add code lines below into your flash drive's grub.cfg where the image file is located under boot/iso/zorin/ directory and the file name is in Zorin-*.iso format. Remember that it is case sensitive.
for isofile in ${isopath}/zorin/Zorin-*.iso; do
  if [ -e "$isofile" ]; then
    menuentry "Zorin >" --class zorin {
      configfile "${prefix}/inc-zorin.cfg"
    }
    break
  fi
done

Add Zorin icon


Download this small zorin.png and save it into your flash drive's boot/grub/themes/invader/icons/ directory.



Boot


Now boot your flash drive and you should see Zorin OS presented to choose along with other operating systems you have in that drive.


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