On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 12:05:09PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: > > I'm reinstalling my Cubietruck with a shiny new SSD. The Fedora > > installation instructions describe writing the disk image to a MicroSD > > card and booting from that. I wonder if anyone has any tips for > > either installing directly on the SSD or how to convert an SD card > > installation to SSD? > > You can just write the uboot to a tiny mSD card (even an old 64Mb one > from an old phone) and then put the rest on the SSD. You can do this > by dding a standard image onto the SSD or you can use a PXE install > with kickstart over a network if you've got that setup. Hmmm .. results unclear. It looks as if the u-boot cannot see the SATA drive at all. Also u-boot has apparently no commands that I can find to list SATA devices (whereas there are commands for listing mmc devices). The boot messages are attached if you have any idea. How does u-boot know which boot partition to use? Is the boot UUID encoded somewhere in u-boot, or does it just scan all devices for something that looks bootable? The SSD is a known-good, ordinary Intel SSD, and is obviously plugged in. Rich. U-Boot SPL 2014.10 (Nov 11 2014 - 07:05:50) DRAM: 2048 MiB CPU: 960000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2 U-Boot 2014.10 (Nov 11 2014 - 07:05:50) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner A20 (SUN7I) I2C: ready DRAM: 2 GiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial SCSI: SUNXI SCSI INIT SATA link 0 timeout. AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode flags: ncq stag pm led clo only pmp pio slum part ccc apst Net: dwmac.1c50000 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0 is current device Scanning mmc 0:1... ** No partition table - mmc 0 ** ** No partition table - mmc 0 ** ** No partition table - mmc 0 ** ** No partition table - mmc 0 ** ** No partition table - mmc 0 ** ** No partition table - mmc 0 ** ** No partition table - mmc 0 ** ** No partition table - mmc 0 ** scanning bus for devices... timeout exit! Found 0 device(s). SCSI device 0: Device 0: not available (Re)start USB... USB0: USB EHCI 1.00 scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found USB1: USB EHCI 1.00 scanning bus 1 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found USB device 0: unknown device dwmac.1c50000 Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete........ done Speed: 1000, full duplex BOOTP broadcast 1 BOOTP broadcast 2 DHCP client bound to address 192.168.0.92 (278 ms) Using dwmac.1c50000 device TFTP from server 192.168.0.254; our IP address is 192.168.0.92 Filename 'pxelinux.0'. [and from here it goes into an unsuccessful PXE boot] -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm