On 01/09/2021 13:26, Sid Boyce wrote:
> On 31/08/2021 10:55, Matthias Brugger wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>>>>
> Hi Matthias,
>
> For both the 128GB microSD card and the 128GB USB stick or a 1TB USB 2.0 hard
> drive.
>
> xzcat/home/lancelot/ftp/AUG21/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-KDE-raspberrypi.aarch64-2021.08.06-Snapshot20210818.raw.xz
> | dd bs=4M of=/dev/sde iflag=fullblock oflag=direct status=progress; sync
>
> Pi4B ... keyboard, mouse, 7 inch HDMI touch LCD.
>
> The microSD boots no problems. I have a full desktop and was able to do a
> zypper
> dup to Snapshot20210829 and reboots always OK.
>
> Removing the microSD and booting from the USB stick, I hit enter at the
> graphical boot screen and it displays a "-" in the top left of the screen and
> gets no further.
>
Did you made sure that you enabled booting from USB in the RPi firmware? If you
don't get to U-Boot you should check the first partition of your USB stick to
see if you have u-boot.bin, dtb's, config.txt, grub etc in place.
Regards,
Matthias
> The process to boot from USB is different on Ubuntu but I am able to boot and
> run from a 1TB Toshiba USB HD on a USB 3.0 hub. I also run Ubuntu on a Pi3B
> from
> a USB stick.
>
> There seems to be only a problem with hard drives and USB sticks on
> Tumbleweed.
>
> I have a colleague who wants to run Tumbleweed on a Pi4B as his main desktop
> so
> it would be helpful if he could boot and run from a USB hard drive.
>
> I am downloading Snapshot20210829 to try with the USB stick.
>
> Regards
>
> Sid.
>
>
>
