Installation of OMV7 on a Usb stick

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    Hi everyone, I would like to install OMV7 to an Usb stick of 16 or 32 Gb. I burned the iso to a CD or DVD, then I booted Omv7 from the internal hard drive of an old HP notebook 2120el (2° gen. Intel, year: 2012 or 2013), and installed the system on a usb stick. Right at the beginning of the process, I choosed the automatic installation. The installation on the usb was always successful, but OMV7 did not boot at system restart. I cannot understand why. The pc has an EFI partition 512 on sda1 (Fat32, boot, esp), linux mint (ext4), sda2). Bios is set in Uefi mode. At that time Pc and even notebook had internal cd/dvd-drive. Perhaps no usb boot is allowed. Or I should go maybe for a manual installation and set a partion table on the usb. Will you please let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks a lot

    I do not have an HP but I am 100% sure you have to look into your BIos very carefully, you probably have a setting not very obvious, you need to trigger it.Myself got an MSI board and for year I was able to boot from USB live formatted with Rufus or similar but I was never been able to boot from OMV although Debian install on USB was booting so I finally found the right setting in BIOS and I was able to boot OMV from USB, but I am sorry I forgot the one I triggered but anyway make sure you disable secure boot.

    Hi

    You can try UEFI CSM (Compatibility Support Module). This may be available with your system...


    Best regards

    prtigger

    Old (2011) Supermicro 1U Rackserver X7SPA-HF, Intel Atom D510, 4GB RAM (maximum) | System: Supermicro Sata DOM 64GB SSD | Data: 3*Samsung 870 QVO 4TB Sata (Btrfs Raid1) | OMV 7.x services: SSH, SMB, NFS, DLNA, (Flashmemory)

    Hi there, thanks for your indications. I can enable Legacy support, which will disable Uefi boot order. But the question remains: it is not clear which should be the valid boot order in legacy support so that I can prioritize any usb at boot. The entries in bios are not clear to me. Perhaps "Usb diskette on key" is the good one? Thanks in advance. Any further indications are welcome.

    Not sure about legacy support without UEFI since mine is UEFI

    Is yours booting this way? but anyway the boot order should be visible in bios or getting F12 or an other F key

    You can try to google your Bios type and number for a detailed manual.

    Hi, it worked! Uefi has still priority on Legacy, but I could boot ventoy. I will proceed again with the installation of OMV7. Is a 16Gb usb also fine? Data will be stored in the separate 400Gb ext4 data partition sda3 on the notebook.

    Thanks a lot! Much appreciated

  • essegi62

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    Is a 16Gb usb also fine?

    If you're not doing numerous dockers or running a media server from the boot drive, 16GB is fine. (For speed of cloning, 16GB is actually preferred.) But you might consider getting a second USB stick or, at a minimum, saving an image file of your boot drive. This will give you the ability to restore the boot drive if needed. -> Cloning Flash media.

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