Linux Tips - Install Full Persistent Manjaro on a USB Drive (2022)

Yes you only have to do it once

On reebot I stuck on grub

wow this is installing slow

Interesting

First live boot disk with persistence I came across was Tails. But it's not practical for my uses. It's so secure it slows everything down to a crawl. When I get this done I might be able to test my game on other peoples computer without saving it. Thanks.

My system crashes after around 10 seconds once I start installing onto the second drive. It completely powers down and restarts without posting. I shut it down by holding the power button and restart the system, and now in the BIOS neither of the USB's are bootable.

If I boot into Windows then the second USB requires formatting to be usable. The original USB created with Rufus is completely unusable with it only showing 3.81mb/3.97 free on the usb. I cannot seem to recover the full memory capacity through various methods such as Diskpart for example.

I now have 2 effectively dead USB's as I tried this twice, thinking maybe the first USB was just old and the install pushed it too hard. Now I know something else is wrong and would warn others to beware.

Does anyone have any advice on how to recover these USB's? :(

Thanks!

You've made things more difficult (especially for me) as needed. When partitioning the USB don't type in /boot fpr the boot partition. The Manjaro Installer was set up properly by the team: when you've selected [x] GPT and use the drop down menu there is an option to use /boot/efi for booting. Use this and there is absolutely no hassle typing in commands for noobs to get the thing running. Thank you for your videos - you made me happy my CinnaManjaro is now running as expected.

Thanks. It works charmingly

With regard to my previous comment the installer is Calamares version 3.2.60-7

After creating the Boot and / partitions I do not see the "Install Boot Loader on:" selection menu. I'm trying to install Manjaro KDE-Plasma version 21.3.7.

Once again pretty straight to the point. Very nice. Now I'm wondering if you can do the same with SteamOS on USB. I didn't get it to work but I'm only installing Linux for the first time today.

Hey my USB does not appear on the selectable devices, u tried formating the USB to diferent formats withou no luck, any ideas?

can i only use 1 usb drive?

Thanks man, you helped me a lot. Greetings from Mexico, nice video.

So I guess I do need a second usb, i was up all night trying to install Manjaro on a usb but it kept giving an error

If I remove the flash drive, I have to do all the steps /temp/boot again?

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Hi, I have a problem when booting; it displays an "out of memory" error code.

Will the final USB drive have persistence?