[Arm-dev] sata boot

[Robert Moskowitz]

Try taking even /boot off the mSD and have it on your sata disk.

On 08/26/2015 10:07 AM, Nicolas wrote:
> Hello
>
> Actually the bananapi works well on sata, the /boot is on the sdcard 
> and / on sata disk.
>
> Nicolas Repentin
> <nicolas at shivaserv.fr>
>
>
> Le 26 août 2015 16:04, Robert Moskowitz a écrit:
>> I have not tested this yet, as I am working on the sernet stuff first,
>> but...
>>
>> The version of uboot we are using supports sata boot.  Kind of.
>>
>> You still need a microSD card that ONLY has uboot on it.  Thus it can be
>> a small, cheap, mSD card.  You put all of your partitions on your sata
>> drive and it SHOULD boot right up.  I have tested this in F22, but I
>> have not done it yet with the pre-alpha and my Cubies.  I believe it
>> works with the BananaPi as well (and other Allwinner SOCs with sata).
>> You cannot put uboot on NAND yet, don't try until Hans reports he has it
>> working, and he has higher priority work items. If you want to boot from
>> USB HD, ask me, and I will send you the notes Hans sent me; he is open
>> to someone else doing the little bit of work for this and he would see
>> it gets upstream.
>>
>> I have also ordered a sata multiplexer board that Hans uses.  I want
>> more than one sata drive on my file server.  It also allows for RAID if
>> that is your druthers.  I will report when I get it working.
>>
>> Finally uboot 2015.10 is wrapping up and it probably will include
>> Cubietruck WiFi support.  Of course you can add a WiFi usb dongle now,
>> but it will be nice to be able to use the included wifi.
>>
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