[EdLUG] Help

[Andrew Ramage]

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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