Install "ON TO" USB troubles [SOLVED]

Hi guys,
New member here and first Arch experience.
I have fooled around with several Linux distros for the past year or so but I have decided that I am not happy with any of them. Most of them try to be as plug and play as possible, but I have found that the easiest ones to install are the most bloated and unreliable.
Using Arch would be an educational experience as much as building my own system that I can rely on. That being said, I am in learning mode so please be patient.
I want to install and build Arch onto a USB key. Most of the posts that I have found in this forum are in regards to having a USB installation key, or being able to install FROM a USB key.
My goal is to have a running OS ON my USB flash drive as I typically use this between two pc's. Plus its just cool. I currently have Fedora successfully running like this but its a little shaky.
So far I have Arch installed on my key, but when I try to boot, root is not recognized. I have followed the wiki to the letter, but still no joy.
In the wiki tutorial it was stated that on booting that root would most certainly not be recognized and to edit mkinitcpio.conf and add "USB" to the HOOKS line, Then rebuild, which I have done. Still no joy.
Does anybody here have a usb flash drive with Arch installed on it that can give a little insight on this?
FYI installation was done via LiveCD.
Thanks in advance.
Scott
Last edited by scottbg1 (2009-12-14 07:54:02)

Thanks Firecat,
From what I have read this should be persistent as well, but if this doesn't work out I will indeed check larch out.
I have had some success in my problem.
I should have checked this out before posting but "usb" wasn't in the hooks line of mkinitcpio.conf like I thought. The kernel image wasn't built as I had thought. When I tried to do it again it would fail and complain that the "kernel26.img" file did not excist on the boot folder, but I verified that it did.
I did a reinstall and edited the line in the configuration portion of the installation. It now works fine.
I am still puzzled about the complaint of the kernel26.img not being recognized in the boot file.
Nevertheless it is working now.
For those who might be researching a USB install and come across this post, I advise doing the configuration prior to the install rather than after as per the wiki instructions. It makes for a more pleasant experience.
Thanks again.
I will mark the subject of this thread as [SOLVED]

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I then downloaded the Windows DVD / USB Tool, reformatted a USB drive as Master Boot Partition, MS-Dos Fat partition, then after lots of struggling got Vmware, windows to recognise the USB drive. And installed the windows software on the USB drive, as all the walkthroughs recommend.
Then I tried for "fun"! to just install windows form the extern USB drive, and with rEFIt it will see the drive and start to do something, but then when it starts to boot, the screen just turns into black and nothing happens, and you can see the drive does NOTHING. (I think it is because I only have 1 USB drive and the Extern DVD drive does not get enough power, but again the mac refuse to see the USB drive unless it is a Snow Leopard installation USB-drive!
Well trying to install Windows Ultimate 64 Bit, which worked great in vmware, because that program installed from the .ISO file that I had on the desktop, but trying with Boot Camp did not get anywhere, what kind of **** program is this boot camp anyway!?, but then I try the new USB disk with windows made from windows, thorugh rEFIt, it sees the disk and then starts and then I get this ERROR:
rEFIt - Booting Legacy OS
Starting legacy loader
Using load option ´USB´
Error: Not found returned from legacy loader
Error: Not found from LocateDevicePath
(x 9 times)
Error: Load Error while (re)opening our installation volume
The firmware refused to boot from the selected volume. Note that external hard drives are not well-supported by Apple´s firmware for legacy OS booting
(Hey Apple please send out a updated firmware that fix this issue?!)
So how do I do it ? - or is the only option to fix the partition running the system from the extern disk. Format the whole drive in 2 from the "bottom" and install windows and then afterwards install Mac on the other partition ? Or just run windows on the mac and forget about mac software ? What a stupid solution...

There are strings in the pliist file to add other Macs so that you can use some USB-DVD drives.
This is 5 page thread, so a little more 'meat' to it:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3410900?start=60&tstart=0
And on PC booting Windows from a USB DVD to do the install is usually a piece of cake, sometimes you just need to specify that USB in the BIOS boot order and sometimes select via F12 (or another Fkey) and that is it.
What you have here seems to be everything and everyone is excluded unless there is a mac-model device ID string that specifies yes. An unnecessary hurdle.

1)Could not start up os x 2)Only could start bootcamp 3)Tried resetting nvram 4)Could not start even in bootcamp 5)Verify disk says -. Verifying volume "Macintosh HD" Error: Live file system repair is not supported 6)Installed maverick on USB d

1) Could not start up os x
2) Only could start bootcamp
3) Tried resetting nvram
4) Could not start even in bootcamp
5) Verify disk says …. Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Error: Live file system repair is not supported
6) Installed maverick on USB drive
7) Boot from USB drive. Tried verifying HD: Volume header needs minor repair. The volume Recovery HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired. Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”: Error: live file system repair is not supported.
8) The terminal code says
9) Last login: Wed Feb 11 14:09:47 on console
10) xxxx-MacBook:~ xxxx$ diskutil list
11) /dev/disk0
12) #: TYPE NAME SIZE       IDENTIFIER
13) 0:      GUID_partition_scheme *160.0 GB   disk0
14) 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB   disk0s1
15) 2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            80.1 GB disk0s2
16) 3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
17) 4:       Microsoft Basic Data 50.0 GB    disk0s4
18) /dev/disk1
19) #: TYPE NAME SIZE       IDENTIFIER
20) 0:      GUID_partition_scheme *15.6 GB    disk1
21) 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB   disk1s1
22) 2:                  Apple_HFS BOOT                    14.8 GB    disk1s2
23) 3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3
24) Saeedehs-MacBook:~ saeedehmirbagheri$ diskutil cs list
25) No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
26) Saeedehs-MacBook:~ saeedehmirbagheri$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
27) Password:
28) gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=160041885696; sectorsize=512; blocks=312581808
29) gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
30) gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
31) gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 312581807
32) start       size index contents
33) 0          1 PMBR
34) 1          1 Pri GPT header
35) 2         32 Pri GPT table
36) 34          6
37) 40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
38) 409640 156394528      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
39) 156804168    1269544      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
40) 158073712   56853648
41) 214927360   97652736      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
42) 312580096       1679
43) 312581775         32         Sec GPT table
44) 312581807          1         Sec GPT header
45) xxxx-MacBook:~ xxxx$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
46) Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 19457/255/63 [312581808 sectors]
47) Signature: 0xAA55
48) Starting       Ending
49) #: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start - size]
50) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thank you -
I booted from external USB. The diskutil list output is from OS x booting from the USB, which shows the following:
Saeedehs-MacBook:~ saeedehmirbagheri$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *160.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            80.1 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         50.0 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *15.6 GB    disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS BOOT                    14.8 GB    disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3
Saeedehs-MacBook:~ saeedehmirbagheri$ diskutil cs list
No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
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image can be found here
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http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Off … py_Install
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Hello.
Well, as I said in another thread, I want to install in an USB hard drive. But I don't know how, because it hasn't graphical installer, but text installer. I tried in a virtual machine, and it was fine, but when I want to start it, an error appears, "Was not found a bootable system" or something. Maybe a VM is not as a computer, but... well. I didn't change anything while I was installing GRUB, and I know that I've to install it in /dev/sdb.
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Welcome to Arch.
Last edited by graysky (2011-01-01 19:50:46)

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Hello everybody. For 3 whole days I have been searching and trying to make this work but I am unable so, as my last resort, maybe someon here can give me a hand. I am trying to install arch to and old 30G ipod classic in order to use it as a portable USB bootable hard drive. I have followed all the instructions for a default installationa dn read the "Install Arch to USB" wiki. I have installed grub to the hdd with:
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Thank you

DSpider wrote:
iPod? Huh?? Then you should probably specify this in the title.
Maybe the BIOS isn't set to boot from your equivalent of "Removable Dev." first, "CD-ROM" second and "Internal Storage" third, after which you need to adjust the boot priority order.
Blank screen with blinking cursor means that you either installed to a partition instead of the whole drive (i.e. to "/dev/sdc1" instead of the MBR), or you didn't generate a grub.cfg.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … Guide#GRUB
And don't forget to add the "usb" hook:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … nvironment
Here you need to set the right hooks if the root is on a USB drive, if you use RAID, LVM, or if /usr is on a separate partition.
Edit /etc/mkinitcpio.conf as needed and re-generate the initramfs image with:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
Another thing you should worry about, is that the drive is probably not that fast. It was designed for music and such (e.g. power saving by placing the files in cache, etc). It could drain the battery in mere minutes.
I have already done all the things you mentioned. My bios boots the usb device as asked, I am sure of that. Grub was installed on the MBR not the partition. I have a grub.cfg file (generated automatically). I also already added usb to me hooks along with encrypt and lvm2 for my encrypted partition and regenerated the kernel image with mkinitcpio.
I have good experience installing arch. I already installed my laptop arch with the same setup, a boot partition and a second partition, luks encrypted with two logical volumes, root and home and everything works perfectly.
I have quickly read somewhere (can't remember where), that some bioses, when specified to boot from usb, do not look at the usb device's mbr. Is that true?
PS: thanks for answering guys, it would really help me to resolve this problem. If i do, I want to install linux on other usb hard drives, not only the ipod.
Also, multumesc domnul "DSpider" pentru raspuns.
Last edited by freed_hum (2012-11-06 15:59:44)

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Thanks,
Drew

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