But not a USB drive yet.

I tested booting from a USB drive. I was using a 5v, .5A IDE drive on a USB adapter. Not enough power through the USB port on my Cubie even with a 3A power supply to the powerplug. I moved the drive to a powered USB enclousure and there it was recognized but the boot still failed. What I learned is that at the present time the necessary modules like ehci_platform, ohci_platform, and phy_sun4i_usb are not yet in initrd. But this is on the todo list, so sometime during the F22 development you SHOULD be able to boot with all the partitions on a USB drive (with enough power).

If someone knows dracut (replaced mkinitrd, I have been told) they may be able to hack this together now if they can't wait until support is done mainline. I can wait, as I have sata on my Cubies.

On 02/27/2015 04:39 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

Kind of; for those devices with sata. You still have to have uboot on the SD card; at some point in the future you will be able to copy it to NAND.

So I have modified the installer script to support this; having the small SD card and the sata drive mounted together on your host system for the build step. I have sent my mods in.

Just one more step down the road of making this 'easy' for use. Will always need the SD card for firstboot, then some step to copy it to NAND for future boots.

I was having some problems at first and saw some intersesting messages on the serial console. Thus I would not be supprised if USB boot would work just as well. I will try that next week with an IDE drive on a USB adapter.

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