On 6/8/19 5:58 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 10:58 PM Steven A. Falco <stevenfalco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On 6/7/19 2:38 PM, Steven A. Falco wrote: >>> On 6/7/19 2:32 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 7:28 PM Steven A. Falco <stevenfalco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 6/7/19 2:26 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >>>>>>> I have a wandboard quad, and I'd like to move the root filesystem to a sata drive. I have the drive connected and formatted, and I copied all of "/" to a partition on the sata drive. >>>>>> >>>>>> For the wandboard you can actually have the entire OS on SATA. The >>>>>> only thing that needs to be on a SD card is U-Boot. >>>>>> >>>>>> So if you take a new image and DD it out to the sata device, then just >>>>>> dd out the U-Boot to a mSD card it should just all boot. >>>>> >>>>> That is very interesting. So I think you are saying that the initramfs that is part of the Fedora 30 image already has the necessary drivers. Do I have that right? >>>> >>>> Sort of. The pre generated images that we ship have "generic" >>>> initramfs which have a LOT of drivers so the images will boot on the >>>> vast majority of Arm devices, once the first kernel update is applied >>>> it automatically moves to a host specific initramfs so will then be a >>>> lot smaller, and hence much quicker to boot, but will not be a generic >>>> initramfs. >>> >>> Excellent! That is a good design. >> >> I am happy to report that it worked perfectly. My Wandboard is now running entirely from a SATA drive, with the tiny exception of U-Boot. > > Excellent news, feel free to suggest any improvements that could be > done to improve the process. Is there a page where I could contribute some information, or is this already written up? In particular, I find that on a cold boot, it usually fails, because U-Boot is faster than the disk can spin up. :-) However, if I then hit the reset button it boots fine. Others might want to know that. Steve _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to arm-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
