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Running openELEC completely from usb
on linux :
1. run ./create_sdcard on usb
2. run ./create_sdcard on sdcard
3. plugin usb and sdcard and bootup pie
4. ssh into device:
# df -h
[ make a note of where the usb is mounted , usually
/dev/sda1 is /var/media/System [ rootfs ]
/dev/sda2 is /var/media/Storage [ user filesystem ]
# mount /flash -o remount,rw
# nano /flash/cmdline.txt
edit it like this:
boot=/dev/sda1 disk=/dev/sda2 ssh quiet
5. reboot , and it shall boot from usb
6. df -h looks like this:
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 181.3M 101.7M 79.6M 56% /dev
/dev/sda1 124.7M 110.8M 13.9M 89% /flash
/dev/sda2 7.0G 691.9M 5.9G 10% /storage
/dev/loop0 101.8M 101.8M 0 100% /
tmpfs 186.2M 0 186.2M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 186.2M 452.0K 185.8M 0% /run
tmpfs 186.2M 0 186.2M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 186.2M 8.0K 186.2M 0% /tmp
tmpfs 186.2M 180.0K 186.0M 0% /var
-------- as opposed to autostart.sh modification we usually do :
/dev/sda1 on /var/media/STORAGE type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,data=ordered)
/dev/sda1 on /storage type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
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