Re: Booting Tumbleweed from USB on Raspberry Pi 4B

[Matthias Brugger]

On 27/08/2021 02:04, 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'm not quite sure why you are doing this. Do you want to boot from USB or from
the uSD card? Why do you plug-in both?

> 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.
> 

Can you stop U-Boot before booting and type then:

setenv xtrace 1
boot

And provide the information.

Regards,
Matthias

> 
> 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.
>