13 Oct
2023
13 Oct
'23
10:37 p.m.
On Friday 13 October 2023 15:16:30 deloptes via tde-users wrote:
When I get some new flash drives, then I think maybe I will try this again. I
already know that I can do it, and it works to boot the system and just use
the machine's hardware as a host. The only thing that remains is whether the
efi partition on this flash drive could be used to boot the OS on my actual
machine, so there is nothing lost by trying that way.
Bill
William Morder via tde-users wrote:
You have (most likely) already an EFI partition on your Windows. And yes
60mb is perhaps also too big :) But I meant here putting the whole system
on a USB stick to test if it works or reproduce the problem and look for
solution without impacting your working env.
I don't have anything Windoze installed on my system; except (maybe what you
mean?), when I check the bios, it does tell me that the original OS was
Windoze. But I have never run anything other than Devuan on my machine, and
even for live disks have only run Devuan, Debian and Slacko.
To keep an OS (with all those partitons) on a
flash drive just for
emergency use, or sometime use when I am using another machine as a
temporary host: that isn't a bad idea, though. I am just wondering, Can I
use an efi partition -- installed on such a flash drive -- independently
of the OS on that flash drive; in other words, to use that efi partition
to boot the OS installed on my actual machine? To install a boot
partition to an external source, such as a flash drive, is one of the
installation options I get with Devuan, but I haven't tried this yet.
I guess it is possible. I think that the EFI passes the boot process to
grub. or they both work together. I forgot already.