It is a spinning self powered hard disk and I have tried both using a
hub and plugged into the Pi4B.
I am now buring a 128GB USB stick to try.
Regards
Sid.
On 27/08/2021 17:29, David Walker wrote:
This isn't quite your configuration (if your HD is truly a spinning
disk), but I've been successful booting Tumbleweed on a USB-connected
SSD, although only if the SSD is plugged directly into one of the RPI
4B's USB ports. It doesn't work if plugged into a USB hub that has
other devices attached. I haven't investigated why the placement of my
boot disk in the USB tree matters (my keyboard isn't recognized by
u-boot or grub2), but I have an official RPI keyboard on order. I'll
report back if I learn anything.
David
On 8/26/21 5:04 PM, Sid Boyce wrote:
I booted and setup from microSD and followed
https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Raspberry_Pi4.
Next I also installed
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-KDE-raspberrypi.aarch64-2021.08.06-Snapshot20210818.raw.xz
to a USB HD.
I read the Wiki and ran "rpi-eeprom-update -a -d"
When I reboot it stops at the grub prompt when booted with the
microSD in.
grub> ls
(proc) (hd0)Â (hd0,msdos3)Â (hd0,msdos2)Â (hd0,msdos1)
(hd1,msdos3)Â (hd1,msdos2) (hd1,msdos1)
Booting with onlu the USB HD, in a loop looking for the hard drive.
No problem when booting with just a Ubuntu USB hard drive with no
microSD card in. Ubuntu setup is quite straightforward.
Anyone succeeded with Tumbleweed?
Regards
Sid.
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