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How do I load Ubuntu into RAM and boot from it?

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Mar 15, 20268754 views
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The Problem I have a USB flash drive which, among Windows PE and other things, has an Ubuntu 11.04 system on a virtual (file-based) partition: It works fine... However, all changes persist after shutdown. I would also like an additional option on the GRUB2 menu which will boot the same installation…

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<drive>/ubuntu/disks/boot.disk      mount point /boot  (contains GRUB)
<drive>/ubuntu/disks/root.disk      mount point /      (contains rest of syste…

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Exactly what you are asking for probably cannot be done without a custom filesystem, but there is ramfs (not ramdisk nor tmpfs) which comes close. Ramfs is sometimes used as the initial filesystem when (embedded) Linux boots, i.e. the initramfs. Sin…

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