[LIVE] HOW-TO build a XBMC Live USB without burning a CD on Windows

UsagiYojimbo · 2010-02-09 22:13

The results were written above, see:

Noodle Wrote:Don't install it to USB then, use USB as Live CD directly.

UsagiYojimbo Wrote:Then I tried to create a Live USB drive, so I used Unetbootin (on Windows). The result: USB drive is booting, but never reaches the XBMC user interface...

Meanwhile i tried several things, I found on these forums, like disabling floppy controller. I also tried to remove the CD-Rom drive, which I did not used since tha attempts with the CD-Rom...

UsagiYojimbo · 2010-02-09 22:39

Somehow I managed to get into a console (Safe mode, plus adding 'debug' at the end of the command line).

It seems, that the script of XBMC Live does not recognize the USB's file-system as VFAT, and could not mount, either.

But when specified '-t vfat' to mount, it mounted and worked.

So what could it be? Wrong partition type id?

tvwatcher · 2010-03-26 06:29

OK I GOT xbmclive loaded fine on the usb drive, everyting works fine, except I want it to boot to xbmc automatically on my acer revo, i know i need to modify the config file, but how do i do that? just open it in notepad in windows? and what exactly do i need to get it to automatically boot to xbmc and my ion gpu, any help greatly appreciated..

batrad · 2010-03-26 20:49

tvwatcher Wrote:OK I GOT xbmclive loaded fine on the usb drive, everyting works fine, except I want it to boot to xbmc automatically on my acer revo, i know i need to modify the config file, but how do i do that? just open it in notepad in windows? and what exactly do i need to get it to automatically boot to xbmc and my ion gpu, any help greatly appreciated..

Notepad is fine for the edits

tvwatcher · 2010-03-27 07:05

i need to know specifically what to change in the config to make it boot directly to ion gpu option..

tvwatcher · 2010-03-28 23:24

come on help a brother out...

ojaca · 2010-04-25 04:16

Take a look at my previous post on this thread. That's how my syslinux.cfg file looks after the edit.

default vesamenu.c32
prompt 0
menu title Choose your card
timeout 5

label unetbootindefault
menu label Default
kernel /live/vmlinuz
append initrd=/live/initrd.img boot=live vga=788 xbmc=autostart,tempfs,setvolume splash quiet loglevel=0 module=nvidia persistent quickreboot quickusbmodules notimezone noaccessibility noapparmor noaptcdrom noautologin noxautologin noconsolekeyboard nofastboot nognomepanel nohosts nokpersonalizer nolanguageselector nolocales nonetworking nopowermanagement noprogramcrashes nojockey nosudo noupdatenotifier nouser nopolkitconf noxautoconfig noxscreensaver nopreseed union=aufs

santanaNL · 2011-02-22 11:40

When creating the live-usb with Unetbootin from Windows (Vista/7) you sometimes get this error. A friend of mine suggested another solution than all of the above. Create the USB stick with Unetbootin from a Linux (Ubuntu) box and NOT a windows system. Apparently something is different between the two because now my system just boots flawlessly!

pipps · 2011-04-01 21:54

I have tried every suggestion on this thread to the letter, but I am still unable to get past the 'Detect and mount CD ROM drivers stage of the Live USB installation'.

Can someone please advise how XBMC Live can be installed by USB?

TheDean · 2011-04-05 17:02

pipps Wrote:I have tried every suggestion on this thread to the letter, but I am still unable to get past the 'Detect and mount CD ROM drivers stage of the Live USB installation'.

Can someone please advise how XBMC Live can be installed by USB?

This really does need to be sorted, as I'm having the issue too! Angry

UsagiYojimbo Member Posts: 83 Joined: Feb 2010 Reputation: 1 Location: Debrecen, Hungary	2010-02-09 22:39 Post: #42 Somehow I managed to get into a console (Safe mode, plus adding 'debug' at the end of the command line). It seems, that the script of XBMC Live does not recognize the USB's file-system as VFAT, and could not mount, either. But when specified '-t vfat' to mount, it mounted and worked. So what could it be? Wrong partition type id? ScraperEdit for XBMC (Java)
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tvwatcher Member Posts: 87 Joined: Aug 2008 Reputation: 0	2010-03-26 06:29 Post: #43 OK I GOT xbmclive loaded fine on the usb drive, everyting works fine, except I want it to boot to xbmc automatically on my acer revo, i know i need to modify the config file, but how do i do that? just open it in notepad in windows? and what exactly do i need to get it to automatically boot to xbmc and my ion gpu, any help greatly appreciated..
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tvwatcher Member Posts: 87 Joined: Aug 2008 Reputation: 0	2010-03-27 07:05 Post: #45 i need to know specifically what to change in the config to make it boot directly to ion gpu option..
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tvwatcher Member Posts: 87 Joined: Aug 2008 Reputation: 0	2010-03-28 23:24 Post: #46 come on help a brother out...
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santanaNL Junior Member Posts: 1 Joined: Feb 2011 Reputation: 0	2011-02-22 11:40 Post: #48 When creating the live-usb with Unetbootin from Windows (Vista/7) you sometimes get this error. A friend of mine suggested another solution than all of the above. Create the USB stick with Unetbootin from a Linux (Ubuntu) box and NOT a windows system. Apparently something is different between the two because now my system just boots flawlessly!
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pipps Member Posts: 61 Joined: Dec 2010 Reputation: 0 Location: UK	2011-04-01 21:54 Post: #49 I have tried every suggestion on this thread to the letter, but I am still unable to get past the 'Detect and mount CD ROM drivers stage of the Live USB installation'. Can someone please advise how XBMC Live can be installed by USB?
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TheDean Junior Member Posts: 9 Joined: Dec 2009 Reputation: 0	2011-04-05 17:02 Post: #50 pipps Wrote:I have tried every suggestion on this thread to the letter, but I am still unable to get past the 'Detect and mount CD ROM drivers stage of the Live USB installation'. Can someone please advise how XBMC Live can be installed by USB? This really does need to be sorted, as I'm having the issue too!
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