[EdLUG] Help

[Andrew Ramage]

Trying to get my home directory, I find that the partition has not been
mounted.

On Wed, 8 Jul 2020, 20:38 Andrew Ramage, <andrew.ramage.1963 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Attached is a photo of the relevant lines on my fstab.
>
> On Wed, 8 Jul 2020, 20:12 Jeremy Nicoll, <jn.ml.elx.813 at letterboxes.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 8 Jul 2020, at 19:52, Andrew Ramage wrote:
>> >  I commented out some lines in fstab that I had entered, mounting SD
>> > cards.
>>
>> Yes, I read that.  Is that the only thing you'd changed?
>>
>> Is there any software on the SD cards that your system requires, to run
>> properly?
>>
>> Or are the files there just data (and not essential config files or logs
>> or
>> anything that the system will try to use)?
>>
>>
>>
>> > I have now created a recovery boot USB drive, but the main system boots
>> > to its normal screen. How do I get the system to boot to the USB ?
>>
>> No idea.  I (not expert in Linux) do not know what you mean by boot /to/
>> USB.
>>
>> If you mean that you wish to boot /from/ USB, then I expect you'd either
>> need
>> to change the machine's BIOS (or whatever) telling it to look for a
>> bootable OS
>> (or loader of some sort) on the USB drive, or - if it's still booting
>> from something
>> else, provide parameters on the initial boot screen telling it to use the
>> USB files
>> instead of wherever your system normally is.   I'm sorry I don't know the
>> right
>> terminology for that.
>>
>>
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