[Solved] Live usb swap.

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[Solved] Live usb swap.

#1 Post by mgp »

Hello everyone. I'm new to the forum so i hope i'm posting in the right category. I created an encrypted live usb of my current MX install. All went well the usb stick works great. I created the usb without swap. My problem is when i boot the live usb it searches the system hard drive for a swap partition and mounts a swap partition if it finds one. The existing swap partition on a hard drive is not encrypted which defeats the purpose of the encrypted usb. My questio0n is how do i prevent my live usb from mounting any existing swap when it boots. Thanks
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Re: Live usb swap.

#2 Post by fehlix »

mgp wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2019 9:22 am My questio0n is how do i prevent my live usb from mounting any existing swap when it boots.
You might add "noswap" boot option manually and check if that works.
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I'm afraid that's not a valid option.
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#4 Post by dolphin_oracle »

"nofstab" might be another try. its a valid code but I don't know exactly how it would work with an encrypted live usb.

I did send an email to BitJam about this one.
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#5 Post by fehlix »

Adrian wrote: Mon Jul 01, 2019 4:12 pm I'm afraid that's not a valid option.
That's Debian "Special" init.d thingy. Probably misinterpreted during liveboot as wrong parameter :footinmouth:
That's the misleading live boot message:

Code: Select all

Possibly unknown or misspelled boot codes:
(don't take this too seriously)
    noswap
live-noswap.png
Try it out. It shall work, all with no swap after boot :happy:
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#6 Post by fehlix »

Actually after you have proven it works, press F8 on the boot screen to select save, this will save the noswap boot option and you shall have it within the additional Custom boot menuentry.
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#7 Post by mgp »

Thanks everyone. The noswap boot option worked! I got the error code about spelling but it worked. Thanks for the tip about saving with F8.
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#8 Post by Valdivia9 »

Yes noswap boot worked with me too..But now i m getting an error of installation error...What is the solution to it?
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#9 Post by Adrian »

Valdivia9 wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2019 5:08 am Yes noswap boot worked with me too..But now i m getting an error of installation error...What is the solution to it?
It would be useful if you could provide more info "an error" doesn't tell us much. Provided at least /var/log/minstall.log and info about your system "inxi -F"
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