Installing to a usb memory drive

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Well I had been having problems with the install not finishing, guess it was a faulty removable usb hard drive, so I installed to a 4 gig usb flash drive. Problem is, that I cannot boot from it, and when I click to go to the live cd, it shows home, as it is on the bood cd, and not as it is on the usb flash drive.

How, do I get the Haiku boot live cd to recognize my flash drive, that it has the system on it, and use that file system instead of the home on the cd? Even when I have the bios set to boot from the cd and usb type drives before the hard drive, if I only have the flash drive in, and no cd, it boots to the hard drive, and windows.

Larry

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Hi Larry,

normally, installing from CD to a USB stick should automatically make the stick bootable. You could try Fredrick’s <a href="http://www.modeen.se/HaikuOnAstick.htm>“Haiku on a stick” to write the image directly to the stick under windows.

If it all doesn’t help and you can still only boot from CD, try holding SHIFT before the Haiku boot screen appears. You’ll get into the boot options where you can choose where to boot from. Choose your stick instead of the CD.

Hope that helps
Humdinger

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Not necessarily : You need a valid MBR to boot.
If your USB drive does not contains a valid MBR and if the disk device already contains a partition table, Haiku will not install any MBR. So you have to install one manually.

  1. download and unzip this file
    http://starsseed.free.fr/fixmbr.zip
  2. run :
FixMBR.sh /dev/disk/USB/0/0/raw

note : adapt /dev/disk/USB/0/0/raw to your actual device path (see DriveSetup)

Regards

Edit:
Make sure your partition is flagged active !