May 26May 26 Community Expert Lolight sums up nand well. I plan to migrate to a single optane for boot. I'm ok with a single drive, I will just continue to do periodic backups just like I have always done. I know the optane will outlast any USB stick I can find these days.
May 26May 26 Author 6 minutes ago, Veah said:Lolight sums up nand well. I plan to migrate to a single optane for boot. I'm ok with a single drive, I will just continue to do periodic backups just like I have always done. I know the optane will outlast any USB stick I can find these days.Yeah. I used to run a weekly backup to another machine but that script fails with internal boot. I see someone has already posted about it.
May 30May 30 Author On 5/25/2026 at 10:33 AM, JorgeB said:you can boot from a flash drive, then run the wizard to create the boot pool on the new deviceTrying to boot from my flash that was used prior to swapping to internal boot but it keeps failing. When I select the flash in the bios setup menu the selection just reverts back to the internal nvme. I set the boot order in bios to boot from the flash first but machine still booted from nvme. Do I need to actually remove the nvme to get the machine to boot from flash?Also noticed the flash wasn't shown on the main tab until I pulled and re-inserted it.
May 30May 30 Author 2 hours ago, wgstarks said:Trying to boot from my flash that was used prior to swapping to internal boot but it keeps failing. When I select the flash in the bios setup menu the selection just reverts back to the internal nvme. I set the boot order in bios to boot from the flash first but machine still booted from nvme. Do I need to actually remove the nvme to get the machine to boot from flash?Also noticed the flash wasn't shown on the main tab until I pulled and re-inserted it.Finally got it. Never could get my previous flash drive to boot so created another using the Flash Creator Tool and copied /boot/config/ to it. Ran the makebootable script too. Not sure if that's still needed or not???I hope this is right-
May 31May 31 Community Expert 10 hours ago, wgstarks said:Ran the makebootable script too. Not sure if that's still needed or not???Only if you are not booting UEFI, but it never hurts.
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