(SOLVED)XU3-Lite boot and run on usb HDD

[dtruesdale]

I tried the U3 post on how to do this and it does not work. Not sure why, have been poking around in it all day.

Any ideas?

[dtruesdale]

So no one has this up and running or knows how to do this on the Odroid C-1 or Xu3? Wow the Pi was simple to do this.

[dtruesdale]

Was given this info at Odroid:

[as root]
Partition new disk
format it with e.g. ext4
mount the new diskpartition in a directory
If you use rsync -avx / /[hdmountpoint] the system will be transferred
you have to edit the /etc/fstab on the new device and of course the boot.ini on the fat partition of the sdcard

That's all there's not really a significant difference between the linux distros.....

but use uuids and not the /dev/sd* stuff

This works as long as I use the Ubuntu image. That is because there is a fat partition. On the Arch setup it uses ext4 with no fat partiton. So with Arch this does not work. So I need to play around with it and I guess make the /boot on a fat partition.

Any suggestions?

The needed information was provided on the Odroid forums here http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f ... a48#p69932

[poincare]

Great suggestion for booting from a usb drive!