So there’s been quite a few new releases of distributions recently. Last month, there’s been Ubuntu 10.04 and Linux Mint 9. This month it’s Fedora 13. Anyway, I just updated my live boot drive with all of those and everything works pretty well.

Last time I prepared the USB drive to boot from ISO. That’s great, but it’s no good if there are no ISOs to boot into. First off, I set up Ubuntu in GRUB. Fortunately, this was pretty easy to do. Ubuntu supports booting from ISO using the iso-scan kernel parameter. Since Linux Mint is derived from Ubuntu, it also supports this parameter. The following lines in the GRUB2 config will enable booting from a Ubuntu/Linux Mint ISO.