On 6/7/19 2:32 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 7:28 PM Steven A. Falco <[email protected]> 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.
Steve
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