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 <[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.
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.
Steve
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