Hi David,

On 27/08/2021 18:29, 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

Can you share what keyboard you use? If you are interested, please open a bug
and we can investigate what's happening. This seems to be a regression in 
U-Boot.

Regards,
Matthias

> 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)  (hd0,msdos3)  (hd0,msdos2)  (hd0,msdos1) (hd1,msdos3) 
>> (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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