[IDEA] Boot XBian from USB

[Richdotward]

Hi

Can anyone please help me. After months of getting corrupted SD cards I've decided to try and boot / run the pi from an old laptop HD inside a small USB caddy.

I've followed the instructions on this topic and have a system booting from the HD.

xbian@Raspberry ~ $ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 1864536 794676 1069860 43% /
/dev/sda 1864536 794676 1069860 43% /
tmpfs 38284 244 38040 1% /run
tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 10240 0 10240 0% /dev
/dev/sda 1864536 794676 1069860 43% /media/usb0
tmpfs 76560 0 76560 0% /run/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p1 34662 10973 23689 32% /boot

The problem is that my 60 Gb HD is showing as the same size as the orginal 2 GB SD card.

I've gone into the config menu and selected auto resize but get the below error.

+-----[Config > Settings > System > Resize SD]--------+
¦ ¦
¦ Are you sure you want to resize you SD card? ¦
¦ ¦
+-----------------------------------------------------¦
¦ < Yes > < No > ¦
+-----------------------------------------------------+

Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table

XBian 1.0a5
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----[Config > Settings > System > Resize SD]--------+
¦ ¦
¦ This SD card is already resized. Aborting. ¦
¦ ¦
+-----------------------------------------------------¦
¦ <Close> ¦
+-----------------------------------------------------+

============

xbian@Raspberry ~ $ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 1977 MB, 1977614336 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 60352 cylinders, total 3862528 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000f06a6

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1 2048 71679 34816 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 71680 3862527 1895424 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 57231 cylinders, total 117210240 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table


Any one know how to fix and use the full 60 GB ?

Thanks a lot.

Rich