On Friday 13 October 2023 15:16:30 deloptes via tde-users wrote: > 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. > 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 ____________________________________________________ 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
