Kon boot windows 8 usb
You're likely done here, but if you have a very old machine, the rest is needed to also enable BIOS booting.Īlso you should create a file ei.cfg in the sources folder with following content(it makes sure you can actually select the edition): Wimsplit /mnt/iso/sources/install.wim /run/media/c0rn3j/WINDOWS/sources/install.swm 3000Īt this point the flash drive should be UEFI bootable. Rsync -rv -progress -exclude=install.wim /mnt/iso/ /run/media/ c0rn3j/WINDOWS/ The exclude is there to support Win10 1809+ images which have over 4GB install.wim which needs to be split: Sudo mount -o loop ~/Downloads/Win8.1_English_圆4.iso /mnt/isoĪnd copy all files from it to the mounted flash drive. Mount the ISO you want to use to some already existing folder Right click the partition you created > Manage flags > tick the 'boot' flag. Afterwards create a FAT32 partition, remember to label it, labeling it is optional if you only want to keep only one OS on the flash drive but probably required for more. This handy script does the below-described process:įormat the flash drive with Gparted - Device > Create partition table - Set partition table to msdos.
#Kon boot windows 8 usb manual
You should now be able to boot the distribution in both BIOS and UEFI, if the distribution supports it.īelow is a description of the manual process, however you can use WoeUSB for an automated one. Sudo dd if=/path/to/file.iso of=/dev/sde bs=4M status=progress & sync Umount /dev/sde1 - Unmount the device in case it's mounted Make sure to run lsblk to know what device you should be dealing with. Unebootin or dd can be used for this purpose, I chose to use dd because it's preinstalled and straightforward. MacOS has some command name differences not mentioned here, but the general idea works still. Unetbootin - Sometimes certain Linux distributions fail to be used by Rufus On Linux and macOS You want to use "GPT for UEFI" partition scheme unless your hardware is years and years old.
#Kon boot windows 8 usb how to
The only negative thing is that I didn't figure out how to make ISOs that boot both under BIOS and UEFI, only one or the other, which is selected under the "Partition scheme" label. Rufus - Rufus usually has no problem working with Linux and Windows ISOs and is easy to work with. To actually boot from the flash drive, go into your UEFI/BIOS settings and either find the option to boot directly from the flash drive, or rearrange your boot order to boot from flash drive first. Keep in mind that the flash drive can either be (U)EFI bootable, BIOS bootable(often named legacy in UEFI options) or both. You should be fine with 1GB for Arch, but hey, 16GB flash drives are like $5 today. For Linux, it depends on the distribution. To create a bootable flashdrive for Windows you'll need an 8GB+ flash drive.