MeCool KIII PRO does not boot

Help & Support Installation & Booting
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Iā€™m only just starting out with CoreElec on a Mecool KIII PRO and have it installed on SD. Didnā€™t know it could be installed on a USB device. How do I do that? ie can I just copy the SD card to a USB stick and expect the system to automatically boot from it?

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You can take an image of the SDcard and write it to USB device.
Best solution is probably to;

  1. Make a CE backup of existing install to (or copy backup to) external media
  2. Download (.gz) image for new install from CE and write it to USB device
  3. Restore CE backup from external media (after booting from USB)

Donā€™t forget, to boot from USB, you have to remove SD card that contains present CE installation :wink:

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Can I just dd if=SD of=USB then insert USB after removing SD, switch on and expect to boot from USB?

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Dou you have an uSD to USB adapter? If so just put your uSD card to the USB adapter, and try to boot from USB. Try all USB ports, and if CE does not boot then itā€™s not supported on your box.

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I tried my SD card in a USB adapter and it booted in all four USB ports which surprised me as I thought you had to use the TF slotā€¦

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Try it. If it doesnā€™t work, try what I said :thinking:

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I thought I said that it did workā€¦

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I was replying to your question here :wink: