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Offline jonathanbrickman0000

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How to boot but ignore hard drive?
« on: November 01, 2010, 10:07:56 PM »
If TC has been installed with persistence to a hard drive, how does one boot and prevent the partition from being automatically mounted?  I have already tried bootcodes 'embed' and 'norestore', but neither of these seem to do what I need; /mnt/hda1 or /mnt/sda1 (depending on hardware) is still mounted, and tce-load -wi still tries to create directories there.  I want the loop mounts to be used, regardless of what is pre-extant on the hard drive.  Anyone got an easy way?

J.E.B.

Offline gerald_clark

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Re: How to boot but ignore hard drive?
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2010, 10:22:19 PM »
The options are base norestore.

Offline jonathanbrickman0000

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Re: How to boot but ignore hard drive?
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2010, 11:37:09 PM »
Thanks, Gerald!  Exactly what I needed.  I put it as an example in the wiki.

J.E.B.