I’m trying to install OSMC on my Pi2 Model B, and I want it to run from a USB stick (SanDisk nano-fit, 16GB).
I’ve tried it multiple times, but it keeps installing it on my SD card. How am I sure of this?
It crashes if I pull out the SD card, even long after it’s done booting, which it shouldn’t as far as I understand.
The USB stick has 8 KB of data on it and the SD card has 113MB on one partition and 220MB on another.
In the installer, I chose “on a USB stick”, and the chose the SD card when prompted to choose the device.
It seems to me like I did everything ok. Maybe someone more experienced can shed some light on possible mistakes I made?
This can not be a full install.
Did you boot from the SD card and let the installer run? Installation depending on you device can take 10 to 30 minutes
I didn’t touch it until OSMC was up. Maybe I mistyped the numbers, but the SD card is 1GB so it couldn’t be much more. I think the problem is with partitioning as I stated in my reply, and the system recognized the 2nd SD partition as an external device. I’m retrying it now and will update soon.
Well try the reformat but definitely the second partition would not be recognised as external USB stick.
Did you use the current installer from osmc.tv?
If you select a USB installation in the OSMC installer, it doesn’t matter how the USB stick is formatted, as the installer will format it to be a single ext4 partition.
Before inserting the card in the Pi, check preseed.cfg and the contents and post them here. After installation, re-insert the SD card in to pc and post ‘install.log’ here.
Ok,
So I downloaded the Installer again (from the same place), used the same settings (for the 5th time), read the preseed file (which seemed ok), booted up my Pi - and it worked!