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[Andrew Ramage]

Looking at the photo I noticed that I had accidentally commented out the
/home iine. All fine now 😊

On Wed, 8 Jul 2020, 20:42 Andrew Ramage, <andrew.ramage.1963 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>>> Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
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