On Thursday 13 July 2017 16:59:45 Alan Corey wrote: > Well, no, until you boot from the hard drive you're just using the SD > card to work on the hard drive. I'm not sure what automounting is > happening on your machine, I usually turn it off. Booted from the SD, > do cd /mnt. If that's an error you probably don't have one, so do cd > / then mkdir /mnt. > > Next you need to mount each of the 2 partitions on the hard drive to > work on. First the DOS /boot partition > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt > then edit /mnt/boot/cmdline.txt which will become /boot/cmdline.txt > then umount /mnt (cd out of it first if you're in it) > and mount /dev/sda2 /mnt > and edit /mnt/etc/fstab which will become your real fstab > umount /mnt > > After that if you shut down and pull the SD it should boot from the > hard drive. I've used my partition numbers because I don't know what > yours are. Here sda1 is the DOS partition, sda2 is ext4, sda3 is > swap. > Whereas this drive is partitioned for /boot=sda1, swap=sda2, and /=sda3
but that shouldn't make a huge diff. I should rsync those two partitions before I try this. Since I won't have the material to mount a scale on the tailstock till next week late, I need some 1/4" alu sheet for that, this might "keep me out of the bars" :) Thanks Alan. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
