I couldn't find any information with google, and all the mess I did it was because I wasn't able to find info : I need to have an OS installed on a USB pendrive that could work if inserted to any laptop. Now, since I will be at the starting point again, I'd like to do the things properly.
That makes useless to have the HD partitioned since I still have to waste hours to reinstall all the programs I use and go through all the settings. Unfortunately all the programs and most of the settings I had previously (themes, and etc) were deleted. The installation when ok, and it saved all my data in the /home folder. Then I selected sda1 as the place to install the bootloader. I then selected the /home partition as before, but unchecking box for the formatting. The installer didn't let me format the EFI partition (that's why I used gparted), while I selected the / partition to be formatted.
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After choosing manual installation, I then selected the two folders I wanted to reinstall, EFI and /. I reinstalled mint preformatting the EFI partition with gparted, and then installing mint with the live cd. Since I partitioned the HD in a way that if something happen I can quickly reinstall everything without loosing data, I have the HD partitioned in the following way: In the meantime I ended up reinstalling linux mint on my laptop. For all those reasons, I personally prefer to make an install without bootloader (launching the installer with ubiquity -b), and then manually install a bootloader to the fallback location, and take the occasion to install a better thing : refind. Furthermore, even if you had grub installed on the USB, the USB would most probably not be bootable on another computer, because grub would not be at the fallback location /EFI/BOOT/boot圆4.efi. Or also sometimes the installer disregards where you tell him to put grub, and just puts it on the first ESP hard drive. I believe what happened is that you didnt have an EFI partition on it, and/or you didnt specify this EFI partition as the place where to put the bootloader. I could choose USB B, but then how will it works when I want to use the USB B to load the SO?Īny suggestion, link, or comment is really appreciatedĬode: Select all apt-get install -reinstall grub-efi-amd64įor the USB, that's a whole other thing. Since my laptop is already working, I don't want to reinstall the bootloader on the laptop.
But I still have to choose where to install the bootloader. In the laptop I'm already running linux mint, with bootloader. Now, the installer see the laptop's HD and the USB B. Install lubuntu (or mint, still haven't decided) on the USB B. Insert the USB B that is empty and will be the house of the new system.ģ. Start the laptop with USB A with lubuntu live installed.Ģ. So now I was thinking to install linux mint or lubuntu like if it was a real installation on USB.ġ.
I tried this with Lubuntu 17.10 but it didn't work (not sure if it's not supported anymore after Ubuntu 16.10). So I was thinking to make a USB live with persistence that allow me to save files and install programs even though the system will always run as a live distro. Now I want to have another OS on a USB pen drive. I have a laptop with mint 18.2 installed.