Booting from USB drive
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I recently purchased a Pi CM5 laptop with an Ubuntu distro already installed on it.
I repartitioned the disk in order to install another Linux distro alongside the existing one and then proceeded with the installation.
Once successfully installed, I edited the extlinux.conf file to add a new boot section using the same kernel as Ubuntu but pointing to the new root filesystem I had just installed. I established the new section as the default one and rebooted.
The new Linux image successfully booted, but only then I realised that I had forgotten to establish the root password.
Since I had prepared a boot USB drive with the Ubuntu image obtained from this site's onedrive, in case things went wrong, I tried to boot from it.
Unfortunately I've been completely unable to boot from it or from other boot drives I have flashed (I could have sworn that I had successfully booted from that USB drive before).
So my question is: do you guys know how to boot the Pi CM5 laptop from a USB drive, so I can fix my Linux installation?
Thanks in advance. -
- It is recommended to use a USB 2.0 interface driver as the boot disk.
- You can also put the system into single user mode and set the ROOT password, which will involve modifying CMDLINE.
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Booting from a USB 2.0 drive was indeed successful and allowed me to fix my issue.
Thanks so much!
By the way, isn't it possible to show a boot menu, so the user can choose from different boot options?
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@Rock
The current human-computer interaction interface of uboot is not yet perfect. We are trying to do this and will notify you of the version launch as soon as possible. Thank you for your support.