William Morder via tde-users wrote: > Regarding the efi partition: the one on my installed system, for the > internal hard drive in my laptop, is only 60 mb. It is not a matter to how > big, but rather whether I would use an entire flash drive (however small, > say 8 or 10 gb) for only 60 mb. I don't usually see flash drives smaller > than that nowadays. However, if I can partition a flash drive like a small > portable system (which I have done before with a 64 gb flash drive, and > put the efi partition on that, as well, then use this efi partition on the > flash drive to boot my system even if using the OS installed on my actual > machine, not the OS installed on my flash drive, then it would not be a > complete waste of a flash drive. > 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 hope this is clear, what I intend to say. And it is always convenient to > be able to carry around an complete OS in my pocket, to be able to boot > any machine, in an emergency, from that flash drive, and to use the > hardware only a kind of temporary host. I did experiment with running my > entire system from a flash drive, and using my machine's hard drive merely > as temporary storage (keeping everything else on external hard drives), > and actually, this worked pretty well, if just a little slow. But in the > long run it did not work, because I think it was too much stress on the > flash drive itself, which eventually got corrupted and became unusable. > Yes, they wear out pretty fast, but also the quality matters. However as rescue system or for testing it is pretty good choice. > 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. ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
