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06-02-2023, 12:48 AM
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Booting Tails from SSD
I wonder if there's a simple way to modify Tails, so that it can be boot from SSD, which treated as non-removable hard drive, without problem. Currently I must modify the boot loader every time to boot from SSD, I do that bcoz SSD loads faster than ordinary flash drive.
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06-02-2023, 04:50 AM
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06-02-2023, 08:51 AM
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Registered: Jan 2008
Location: florida panhandle
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Currently I must modify the boot loader every time to boot from SSD
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What bootloader/file are you modifying? Assuming you are using grub a /boot/grub/grub.custom file with a menu entry for tails should suffice. There is no need to run update-grub with changes to a grub.custom file.
Last edited by colorpurple21859; 06-02-2023 at 08:53 AM.
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06-03-2023, 12:39 AM
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What bootloader/file are you modifying? Assuming you are using grub a /boot/grub/grub.custom file with a menu entry for tails should suffice. There is no need to run update-grub with changes to a grub.custom file.
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I also want to know which file to modify, so that I can made it permanent. What I did was to edit the boot options to remove the "livemedia=removable" statement so that it will boot straight away without error, as SSD is treated as fixed drive unlike regular USB flash drive as removable. |
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06-03-2023, 01:11 AM
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Location: florida panhandle
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Need more information. Is this ssd internal or external drive? How did you put the iso onto the ssd?
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06-03-2023, 02:20 AM
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Need more information. Is this ssd internal or external drive? How did you put the iso onto the ssd?
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It's a USB SSD stick, I install Tails the normal way with USB image writing app from Linux Mint no special settings. |
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06-03-2023, 02:34 AM
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I just did a test to install Tails on a Samsung T5 500G USB SSD, it booted halfway then return error of "unable to find a live file system...", same as the Buffalo 256G I used, until I removed the "live-media=removable" statement in the boot options.
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06-03-2023, 08:30 AM
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Registered: Jan 2008
Location: florida panhandle
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Edit the tails EFI/debian/grub.cfg and/or one the live.cfg syslinux directory
Last edited by colorpurple21859; 06-03-2023 at 08:36 AM.
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