<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>Just to note, the photo email has arrived out of order - the mailing list doesn't automatically allow messages over 400 KB, so it was held until I released it. Maybe that limit should be a bit higher nowadays?<br></div><div><br></div><div>A couple of other messages were held because people weren't sending from the address they're subscribed with. For your messages to go through promptly, please do use the right from address (or resubscribe to the list with your new address). :-)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,<br></div><div>Thomas<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, 8 Jul 2020, at 20:38, Andrew Ramage wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div dir="auto">Attached is a photo of the relevant lines on my fstab.<br></div><div><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="qt-gmail_attr">On Wed, 8 Jul 2020, 20:12 Jeremy Nicoll, <<a href="mailto:jn.ml.elx.813@letterboxes.org">jn.ml.elx.813@letterboxes.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="qt-gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:1px;padding-left:1ex;"><div>On Wed, 8 Jul 2020, at 19:52, Andrew Ramage wrote:<br></div><div> > I commented out some lines in fstab that I had entered, mounting SD <br></div><div> > cards. <br></div><div> <br></div><div> Yes, I read that. Is that the only thing you'd changed?<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Is there any software on the SD cards that your system requires, to run<br></div><div> properly?<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Or are the files there just data (and not essential config files or logs or <br></div><div> anything that the system will try to use)?<br></div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><div> > I have now created a recovery boot USB drive, but the main system boots <br></div><div> > to its normal screen. How do I get the system to boot to the USB ?<br></div><div> <br></div><div> No idea. I (not expert in Linux) do not know what you mean by boot /to/ USB.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> If you mean that you wish to boot /from/ USB, then I expect you'd either need<br></div><div> to change the machine's BIOS (or whatever) telling it to look for a bootable OS<br></div><div> (or loader of some sort) on the USB drive, or - if it's still booting from something<br></div><div> else, provide parameters on the initial boot screen telling it to use the USB files<br></div><div> instead of wherever your system normally is. I'm sorry I don't know the right <br></div><div> terminology for that.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><div> -- <br></div><div> Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> -- <br></div><div> EdLUG mailing list<br></div><div> <a href="mailto:EdLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">EdLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br></div><div> <a href="https://lists.edlug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/edlug" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.edlug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/edlug</a><br></div></blockquote></div><div>-- <br></div><div>EdLUG mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:EdLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk">EdLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.edlug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/edlug">https://lists.edlug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/edlug</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Attachments:</b><br></div><ul><li>IMG_20200708_203641_006.jpg<br></li></ul></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>