

Here was another dialog, possibly the same as before somehow: “Copy grldr file to drive H?” Continuing as instructed, I said OK and then downloaded the Easy2Boot files in the form of Easy2Boot-grub4dos_v0.4.zip. It vanished too quickly to read, possibly because it swallowed a couple of these keystrokes and choked. I was not entirely sure what happened here: I got a command window telling me to “Press ENTER to continue.” As I was typing these words, I also got some kind of dialog. Next, I clicked the Install Grub4DOS button.

As in my previous use, RMPrepUSB annoyingly rearranged several of the windows I had open onscreen. I clicked the Prepare Drive button as shown there. Having already downloaded and run RMPrepUSB, I went to the part of Tutorial 72 that showed the necessary settings. That GUI seemed to be like a Swiss Army Knife of the bootable USB world. 72: A Grub4DOS Multiboot USB Drive That Is Easy to Maintain.Īs with most if not all RMPrepUSB tutorials, it seemed, the process involved the RMPrepUSB graphical user interface (GUI). That intimidatingly long tutorial was blessed with a link to Tutorial No. 21: How to Make a Grub4DOS Multi-Boot Drive. At the moment, I was interested in the one that seemed to be covered by RMPrepUSB Tutorial No. RMPrepUSB was advertised as offering many potential uses. In response to that scenario, I wondered if RMPrepUSB, despite its complex appearance, might ultimately give me a more reliable and easier-to-maintain alternative. But it did seem to be the case at present. I was not too sure how this could happen. The current concept was that YUMI could set up a USB drive that would seem like it should boot, and maybe it even *would* boot, but then, later, it would change its mind and become hopeless, producing nothing but error messages and despair.

Within the past 24 hours, I had known the thrill of a working USB drive via YUMI and the agony of watching that very same drive crash and burst into flames.
