[Arm-dev] Booting from sata

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 02/19/2015 09:41 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I noticed in a recent post to the u-boot list that Hans said that 
> booting from sata now works with the latest upstream uboot and 3.19 
> kernel.
>
> So I asked him to clearify and he said that you still need the SD 
> card, but just for the uboot.  ALL partitions can go on your sata drive.
>
> I further suspect that even I can figure out how to get the uboot to 
> NAND, so that no SD card is needed.  This might even be able to be 
> implemented in an install script that a lot of users can deal with.
>
> And that is where we get past crawling to walking.  When you run a 
> script, only providing the location of the .xz file and your board, 
> and the install goes.  Well at least to the part where you have a 
> bootable drive to install into your system.

Nope, uboot on NAND is not YET an option.  Still a feature to be 
implemented.  But it seems like this is in the plans.  With all the 
other uboot features/fixes.

At least any old cheap SD card will suit.