Posts by sandrot

Consider it may just be my HP laptop. I saw tutorials on how to choose other USB drives for install, but I could never follow through, and also I don't know what version of OpenELEC they refer to.

Quote from trogggy

Live mode is horrible, I agree. But you can use the installer to install properly to another usb stick - just choose that instead of your hard drive - if you want.
Personally I muck about much more than that - I run from a fat32 partition on usb / sd, pointing at ext4 partitions on my hard drives for storage.

I wish that was possible... I traveled "back in time" down to OpenELEC 4.2.1 and installer never shows a 2nd plugged USB flash drive on my HP laptop.

Maybe it's just me, but I find they way LibreELEC and OpenELEC run from USB flash drive unsatisfactory:
- you need to use the keyboard to choose "live" mode;
- in some cases you don't have enough time to choose "live" and installer is started;
- live mode forgets all of your settings once you power off.

Looking at what is written to USB flash drive, i see a FAT16 partition and an ext4 partition of just 32 Mb. When you run live, that partition will store lost+found data.

I therefore made the following:
- plugged USB flash drive in my laptop running Ubuntu;
- used GParted to expand the ext4 partition to fill USB flash drive;
- used

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

to find out what the ext4 partition uuid was;
- modified syslinux.cfg to include ext4 partition as disk under "live" label, and
- removed prompt, and
- removed "installer" label and related instructions, and
- changed default to "live"

Now I can run from any x64 PC or laptop that can boot from USB and I get to keep my plugins and settings.