Page 1 of 1

porteus.cfg & stuff on other partition

Posted: 27 Oct 2018, 14:16
by jan6
  • what is the difference between /boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg and /porteus/porteus-v4.0-x86_64.cfg ?
  • is there a way to have modules also loaded from another partition, like the changes ?
  • is there a way to specify another partition on the same stick, without hard-confing changes=/dev/sdb2 ? (the amount of drives on the system may vary, maybe there's no internal drive, maybe there's three, maybe another stick gets detected first)

porteus.cfg & stuff on other partition

Posted: 27 Oct 2018, 16:24
by Ed_P
jan6 wrote:
27 Oct 2018, 14:16
[*] is there a way to have modules also loaded from another partition, like the changes ?
Yes. The extramod= works great for just that situation.
jan6 wrote:
27 Oct 2018, 14:16
[*] is there a way to specify another partition on the same stick, without hard-confing changes=/dev/sdb2 ? (the amount of drives on the system may vary, maybe there's no internal drive, maybe there's three, maybe another stick gets detected first)

I was thinking you could use a UUID but not sure if a UUID is device based or partition based. I never partition USB drives since Windows only recognizes the 1st partition.
jan6 wrote:
27 Oct 2018, 14:16
[*] what is the difference between /boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg and /porteus/porteus-v4.0-x86_64.cfg ?
As for the .cfg files I'm not sure. They both take the same cheatcodes ttbomk. I believe the new one allows for one set of changes across multiple DEs.