On 31/08/2021 00:30, Sid Boyce wrote:
> I only want to be able to boot from a USB drive, just as I do with Ubuntu, a
> 1TB
> plugged into a USB 3.0 hub.
>
> I burned a 128GB USB stick -- plugged into the Pi4B, at the graphical boot
> screen all is OK, I hit enter but it never gets further than the "-" cursor
> in
> the top left of the LCD even after many hours.
>
Ok, so you use a LCD as display, you didn't mention that. Can you check if the
system comes up on the serial console/HDMI. Please double-check if you forgot to
add any overlay on your USB stick installation.
Regards,
Matthias
> The reason for trying to boot with both was just something I thought worth a
> try
> just to see.
>
> No problems when booting from a microSD card.
> Regards
> Sid.
>
>
> On 30/08/2021 12:23, Matthias Brugger wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>
