{"id":2284,"date":"2021-01-03T01:42:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T09:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wonghoi.humgar.com\/blog\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2021-01-09T21:23:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T05:23:03","slug":"use-ssd-for-bootable-usb-stick-linux-liveboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wonghoi.humgar.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/03\/use-ssd-for-bootable-usb-stick-linux-liveboot\/","title":{"rendered":"Use SSD for bootable USB stick Linux liveboot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you flash a Debian-style Linux live-boot image that’s intended for USB stick on a USB-SSD itself (for speed), it will get stuck at initramfs on boot because unlike USB sticks, USB SSD drives<\/strong> are not considered removable drives, yet the live-boot parameters (scripts) set to search only removable media, hence it cannot find the right device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The solution is to remove live-media=removable<\/code> as boot parameter (typically under append initrd<\/code>). You can do that quickly on each boot by TAB key to modify this key-value pair out of the boot parameters and hit enter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make it persistent, you have to edit the scripts where these boot parameter lives. The live USB stick\/CD was supposed to be mounted as a read-only volume, so we need to first remount it as writable in order to modify the scripts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

mount -o remount -w \/lib\/live\/mount\/medium<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Note the -w<\/code> parameter which means writable. -o<\/code> means options. -o remount,rw<\/code> means exercising the remount option as a writable drive (-w<\/code> is alternate syntax for writable). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Make sure you have root access (to modify these files), and edit these live*.cfg files if it shows up in the following folders:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\/lib\/live\/mount\/medium\/syslinux\/live*.cfg\n\/lib\/live\/mount\/medium\/EFI\/boot\/live*.cfg<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Then take out live-media=removable<\/code> in for the boot menu item you normally use for each of these script .cfg files. Reboot after you are done.<\/p>\n
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