Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-03 Thread Jonathan Billings
> On Jul 2, 2024, at 19:31, Mike Wright wrote: > > On 7/2/24 07:44, Frank Bures wrote: >> Hi, >> I was wondering if it was possible to boot the existing F40 installation >> from a USB. I tried to research this but everything I was able to find >> dealt with booting a live image of F40 from

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/2/24 07:44, Frank Bures wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to boot the existing F40 installation from a USB.  I tried to research this but everything I was able to find dealt with booting a live image of F40 from USB and/or installing a live image of F40 on a USB. What I

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-07-02 17:35, Barry wrote: I have a bootable external ssd that has scripts on it to mount the partitions of my systems. Then i can fix the problem and reboot. Good idea, thanks. I'll look into it. Frank -- -- ___ users mailing list --

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 11:49 AM Frank Bures wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if it was possible to boot the existing F40 installation > from a USB. I tried to research this but everything I was able to find > dealt with booting a live image of F40 from USB and/or installing a live > image of

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 13:49:23 -0700 Mike Wright wrote: > On 7/2/24 07:44, Frank Bures wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering if it was possible to boot the existing F40 > > installation from a USB.  I tried to research this but everything I > > was able to find dealt with booting a live image of

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Barry
> On 2 Jul 2024, at 21:15, Frank Bures wrote: > > Well, I had boot problems before and I found using grub prompt and manual > recovery somehow cumbersome. So I thought maybe I could bypass all that by > creating a special USB boot disk and do necessary boot repairs from the > running

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 4:25 PM Frank Bures wrote: > On 2024-07-02 12:56, Go Canes wrote: > > Care to explain what you are trying to achieve? > > Well, I had boot problems before and I found using grub prompt and manual > recovery somehow cumbersome. So I thought maybe I could bypass all that by

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Mike Wright
On 7/2/24 07:44, Frank Bures wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to boot the existing F40 installation from a USB.  I tried to research this but everything I was able to find dealt with booting a live image of F40 from USB and/or installing a live image of F40 on a USB. What I

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-07-02 12:56, Go Canes wrote: Care to explain what you are trying to achieve? The USB stick would only be useful for the existing install, and you would need the USB stick to boot the existing install (assuming you removed any existing /boot and/or /boot/efi from the existing install).

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-07-02 10:44, Frank Bures wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to boot the existing F40 installation from a USB.  I tried to research this but everything I was able to find dealt with booting a live image of F40 from USB and/or installing a live image of F40 on a USB. What

Re: Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 10:49 AM Frank Bures wrote: > What I want is to create a USB stick with /boot and /boot/efi fs in such a > way that it boots an existing F40 installation on a HD. As I understand things... - your computer will need to be told to boot off the USB drive - either a boot

Hypothetical boot question

2024-07-02 Thread Frank Bures
Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to boot the existing F40 installation from a USB. I tried to research this but everything I was able to find dealt with booting a live image of F40 from USB and/or installing a live image of F40 on a USB. What I want is to create a USB stick with