[IDEA] Boot XBian from USB

[Aweponken]

(4th Apr, 2014 01:40 AM)dharmabm Wrote:  you are using /dev/sda1 and not just sda1? it shouldn't matter about the format of the USB drive, as it is formatted in the copy process anyway. it has been suggested that the USB should be larger than the sdcard, but that shouldn't really matter either as the copy should allow for +/- 300mb in partition size. there have been some issues in xbian-copy on RC1, although there are updates coming soon which should resolve them, using xbian-copy on beta2 and the staging builds should be working properly. answer the first question and we will try to help further.

Yes I use /dev
So I got the cloning process to work and it copies it all very nicely. Although I still get the flashing screen when starting the pi. Tried both sda1 and sdb1, none works. Xbian claims it should be sda1.