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Offline PDP-8

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CorePlus and waitusb option
« on: April 24, 2017, 02:08:48 AM »
My own little PEBCAK:

Burned a bootable micro-sd card for ver 8.0 X86 with CorePlus and used the USB-HDD option checkbox.

I got over-zealous and dutifully added waitusb=10 to the custom boot option line.  Not necessary, but thought so since I was essentially doing a usb boot.

When I checked my bootline at
/mnt/sdb1/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf

I noticed there were TWO instances of waitusb - mine and the installer's.

I removed my redundant waitusb option, and just left the installer's own waitusb=5 that appeared before the UUID's.

I guess I like things tidy. :)
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Offline polikuo

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Re: CorePlus and waitusb option
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2017, 03:41:53 AM »
I noticed there were TWO instances of waitusb - mine and the installer's.

The installer checks whether your media is a removable drive (USB).
By default, it'll add "waitusb=5" to the config file if it is one.

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Re: CorePlus and waitusb option
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2017, 02:16:35 PM »
It surely does, so I removed my redundancy, and won't jump the gun and add it myself next time. :)
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