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On Tuesday, 1 January 2019 03:15:20 GMT Jack wrote: |
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> On 2018.12.31 21:20, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > On Monday, 31 December 2018 19:01:16 GMT Jack wrote: |
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> > > Couldn't you just dd it to a USB drive (without needing to mount the |
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> > > iso first) and then mount the drive? |
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> > I did do that, then tried to boot the USB drive. It wouldn't boot. |
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> Why didn't it boot? Sorry if you said, and I missed it. |
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No, I didn't say, but I should have. The BIOS didn't recognise it as a |
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bootable device. |
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I suspect hardware problems on that machine, a 32-bit, single-core Atom, and I |
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have a new SSD in the post, so I'm not too worried about it yet. |
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> My thought is that after copying/dd'ing to the usb drive, mount the |
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> drive, and play with the grub config file, or whatever, to deal with |
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> whatever stops it from booting. You could blacklist modules, or add |
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> boot parameters, or ..... Of course, if you don't know what's |
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> actually causing the problem, it's harder to avoid. |
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> Maybe you'll figure it out in a New Year's miracle! |
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Hah! :) |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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