I have a PC with these operating systems: Windows 10 Ubuntu 20.04.3 Desktop Ubuntu 20.04.2 Server
The boot menu was installed on the PC when I installed Ubuntu 20.04.3 Desktop in dual boot mode. Then I also copied over my server to this disk using GParted on Ubuntu Desktop. And I used update-grub on the Desktop to get the server on to the boot menu. So this works OK now. But whenever I need to take a backup of the PC I want to use GParted and I only have 2 options: 1) Start the Ubuntu Desktop and use GParted This works OK except that the partition with the Desktop version itself is locked. 2) Start the PC from a GParted Live USB This is very non-trivial to do since the only way I have found to do thios is to go into Windows and then use Shift-Start-Power-Reboot and select the USB drive from the presented possibilities. I would like to have GParted Live as a separate option on the boot menu instead. Googling has brought up these hits: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1257868/booting-gparted-with-grub https://gparted.org/livehd.php#live-hd-grub But I find them very confusing to follow... Is there some easy to understand way which will do this? On Ubuntu Desktop: - Create new 1GB ext4 partition /dev/somepart1 using GParted on Ubuntu - sudo mkdir /mnt/gparted (create mount point) - sudo mount /dev/somepart1 /mnt/gparted - cd /mnt/gparted - wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gparted/gparted-live-1.3.1-1-amd64.iso Now I need to create the grub entry and this is where I have problems because of the mixup between grub and grub2 in the pages I have found. Can someone help filling in the final part of the actions I need? The end result should be to have a last line in the boot menu saying: GParted Live -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden
