(Previously I had to install Openelec first and update to Libreelec from there. Open the Openelec folder and use create_installstick.exe to create the Bootable flash driveīooted my troublesome NUC of it and worked perfectly. Using MiniTool Partition Wizard Free I deleted all the partitions on my Flash drive repartitioned and formatted it.

I burned the image to a USB stick using Rufus (1.3, downloaded today). Now I explored the files on my USB flash drive and copied KERNEL, KERNEL.md5, SYSTEM and SYSTEM.md5 from there to the folder 'target' within my Openelec folder. Attempting to boot to that image on a USB stick results in it telling me that its looking for a bootable configuration and then 'A bootable device has not been detected.' Ive done this with two previous NUCs (earlier NUCs, earlier OpenBSD) as recently as about a year ago. I opened the Openelec folder and opened the folder 'target' and deleted the four files inside. Then I installed LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-7.0.3.img.gz to my flash drive using the Libreelec USB creator. So I downloaded OpenELEC-Generic.i386-5.0.8 and extracted it to a folder on my PC. I knew it would boot of a flash drive made using the create_installstick.exe from Openelec. My Intel NUC refused to boot from my flash drive created with the Libreelec USB creator utility. PS to the OP, after writing to the USB stick you should be able to see files/directories in it, if you can't then it hasn't copied them correctly After that you get a choice of Quick Install, Repair/Upgrade or Logfile.Īnd (apparently) since version 7, there is no option to install the 32bit version. Maybe this is run from memory? Who knows. The options are default: automatic boot, tab gives the 'option' of 'installer live'.

The main danger AFAICS is the install from USB doesn't give you the option to run it from memory as most sensible Linux installs do, people like to try things rather than committing irrevocably to disk from the start! It seems ridiculous to have to do all that. Just have a go, you can't break anything. I'm not aware of anyone writing up exact instructions for this scenario, but 'install grub linux' returns 500k+ results in Google and the rest requires 'gparted' and some copy/paste in Ubuntu so I guess there's some instructions around. tar file and unpack it, they're in the target folder. Create a USB and the LE install files are in the boot partition of the USB, or grab the update.

Attempting boot from usb device