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For the last couple of days I am searching for an answer, but I constantly run into brick walls.
I want to create a bootable USB with a custom Linux-based OS (for the sake of this conversation, let's just say it is Ubuntu) which I could boot into from Windows in a user-friendly fashion.
Host operating system is Windows 10.
I want to accomplish the following:
- User inserts the USB stick with the custom OS.
- A simple GUI opens with a Launch button.
- When Launch is clicked, it should modify boot configuration to boot from USB and reboot.
- Windows Boot Manager should delegate delegate booting to the Linux bootloader and open Live browse for the custom OS (bootloader and GUI will be something like Ubuntu's)
- After reboot, it should return to the default OS (Win 10) without any trace, so the boot order would be one time only.
I have tried messing with BCDEdit, but with no luck, also I have tried using EasyBCD and Visual BCD, but I could not create a working BCD entry which would start the booting process from my USB.
Also, it seems like BCDEdit is poorly documented by Microsoft, and all other use cases I found online do not cover my case.
Also it is very important that the end-users do not have to do any setup, changing boot configuration should be done programatically.
I would appreciate any idea how to create a BCD entry which would chainload Linux bootloader from USB drive.