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.
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.
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