# Bootable x86 Ubuntu 20 images

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/bootable-x86-ubuntu-20-images/7675>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [March 27, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/bootable-x86-ubuntu-20-images/7675 "2025-03-27T22:12:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![pinter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a87d85/32.png) [@pinter](https://hub.mender.io/u/pinter)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/bootable-x86-ubuntu-20-images/7675/1 "2025-03-27T22:12:28Z")

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Hi all, I’m new here. We use an x86 device that has a sata drive. I’ve been following the guides and googling around and managed to get everything to a point where my device was booting into grub with the mender img on the drive. I’m stuck there but not giving up yet. I was wondering however, if I get this working, can I get to a point where I just have the image deployable via unattended USB? We have a warehouse that orders the devices and I just want them to plug a usb in to load the OS.

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**Author:** ![TheYoctoJester](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/theyoctojester/32/1444_2.png) [@TheYoctoJester](https://hub.mender.io/u/TheYoctoJester)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 10:51am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/bootable-x86-ubuntu-20-images/7675/2 "2025-04-02T10:51:16Z")

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Hi @pinter,

Sounds like you basically want a provisioning process, right? In a nutshell, this is quite outside the scope of Mender itself, but you could try something like this:

- create a bootable USB drive running Ubuntu or something
- place the image which you want to flash to the hard disk on the USB drive
- create a script with runs upon startup and writes the image to the hard disk.  
This can be done as nice and fancy or bare bones as you like.

Greetz,  
Josef