I'm attempting to recover a laptop. It's SATA drive has failed catastrophically. Until I'm able to get in a new SATA HDD I'm attempting to recover some use of the laptop with a live boot disk of Debian 10.0.0 and an external USB HDD. Unfortunately the live boot fails, returning: ata1: COMREST failed (errno=-32). As near as I can tell this means that it is failing to establish a connection with the internal SATA drive, which, if course it would considering that the SATA drive has failed.
Is there anyway to bypass this part of the live boot or point it towards an external USB HDD instead?