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danangdk

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Registered: 2015-02-05

Posts: 23

install on flashdisk/pendrive

is arch able to install on flash media? i try it but failed on grub-install.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,418

Re: install on flashdisk/pendrive

Sure it's possible. Tell us what problem you're having.

memory_leak

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Registered: 2015-03-02

Posts: 43

Re: install on flashdisk/pendrive

Sure is. I am running my Arch from usb drive. I have installed my arch on a Sandisk extreme 8sb 3.0. 64 gb. I have runned it for months without issue.

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: install on flashdisk/pendrive

Are you using https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … _a_USB_key or some other guide?

Last edited by karol (2015-12-21 15:45:05)

tom.ty89

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Registered: 2012-11-15

Posts: 897

Re: install on flashdisk/pendrive

Apparently this doesn't have anything to do with USB/flashdisk/pendrive. It's just grub-install is not working for him.

danangdk

Member

Registered: 2015-02-05

Posts: 23

Re: install on flashdisk/pendrive

grub-install failed, all instalation prior to grub-install are fine, the message said about block device kind of unsupported

tom.ty89

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Registered: 2012-11-15

Posts: 897

Re: install on flashdisk/pendrive

We can't really help if you can only give an ambiguous snippet of the error, but, my guess is you are were running something like `grub-install /dev/sdXY` instead of `grub-install /dev/sdX`.

P.S. And yeah, you didn't give the full grub-install command you ran either.

Last edited by tom.ty89 (2015-12-22 16:34:29)