On 03/09/2021 07:49, Matthias Brugger wrote:
On 01/09/2021 14:26, Sid Boyce wrote:
On 01/09/2021 12:32, Matthias Brugger wrote:
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
Pi4-3:~ #rpm -qa|grep raspberrypi-firmware
raspberrypi-firmware-2021.03.10-2.2.noarch
raspberrypi-firmware-config-2021.03.10-2.2.noarch
raspberrypi-firmware-dt-2021.03.15-2.2.noarch
I did the update before rebooting.
Pi4-3:~ #rpi-eeprom-update -a
BOOTLOADER: up to date
CURRENT: Thu Apr 29 16:11:25 UTC 2021 (1619712685)
LATEST: Thu Apr 29 16:11:25 UTC 2021 (1619712685)
RELEASE: critical (/lib/firmware/raspberrypi/bootloader/critical)
Use raspi-config to change the release.
VL805_FW: Dedicated VL805 EEPROM
VL805: up to date
CURRENT: 000138a1
LATEST: 000138a1
Do you have access to the serial console to see where the boot process is
hanging? That would be crucial to debug the issue.
1TB Hard drive plugged in running from microSD.
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x92055551
DeviceBoot Start End Sectors SizeIdType
/dev/sda1 8192 139263 131072 64M c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 139264 1163263 1024000 500M 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 1163264 11685854 10522591 5G 83 Linux
Hm, maybe sda1 isn't marked as bootable, is this output from fdisk? Other then
that things look good.
Regards,
Matthias
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Pi4-3:~ #mount /dev/sda1 /1
Pi4-3:~ #l /1
total 6322
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 16384 Jan 1 1970 ./
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Sep 1 12:15 ../
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 2048 Aug 18 19:50 EFI/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1594 Mar 10 10:36 LICENCE.broadcom*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30030 May 27 21:49 bcm2708-rpi-b-plus.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29378 May 27 21:49 bcm2708-rpi-b-rev1.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29767 May 27 21:49 bcm2708-rpi-b.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29689 May 27 21:49 bcm2708-rpi-cm.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30705 May 27 21:49 bcm2708-rpi-zero-w.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29512 May 27 21:49 bcm2708-rpi-zero.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30905 May 27 21:49 bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31054 May 27 21:49 bcm2710-rpi-2-b.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 33171 May 27 21:49 bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 32552 May 27 21:49 bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31050 May 27 21:49 bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 53250 May 27 21:49 bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 52954 May 27 21:49 bcm2711-rpi-400.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 53362 May 27 21:49 bcm2711-rpi-cm4.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 52456 Mar 10 10:36 bootcode.bin*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2652 Apr 9 12:50 config.txt*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7311 Mar 10 10:36 fixup.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5442 Mar 10 10:36 fixup4.dat*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20480 Aug 18 19:31 overlays/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2955008 Mar 10 10:36 start.elf*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2230880 Mar 10 10:36 start4.elf*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9 Aug 18 19:55 startup.nsh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 649624 Aug 12 07:23 u-boot.bin*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 Aug 12 07:23 ubootconfig.txt
------------
Pi4-3:~ #mount /dev/sda3 /3
Pi4-3:~ #l /3
total 88
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Aug 18 19:50 ./
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Sep 1 12:15 ../
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Aug 3 20:51 bin-> usr/bin/
dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 18 19:50 boot/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116 Aug 18 19:50 config.bootoptions
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71 Aug 18 19:42 config.partids
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 18 19:42 dev/
drwxr-xr-x 109 root root 4096 Aug 18 19:42 etc/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 18 19:26 home/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Aug 3 20:51 lib-> usr/lib/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 3 20:51 lib64-> usr/lib64/
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Aug 18 19:42 lost+found/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 18 19:26 mnt/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 18 19:26 opt/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 18 19:24 proc/
drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Aug 18 19:31 root/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 18 19:41 run/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 3 20:51 sbin-> usr/sbin/
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 18 19:31 srv/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 18 19:24 sys/
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Aug 18 19:49 tmp/
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Aug 18 19:26 usr/
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Aug 18 19:31 var/
Regards
Sid.
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.
I tried another 128GB USB stick with same result.
Next I used the microSD card in a reader, that also fails to boot
completely, stuck with the "-" in the upper left of the 7 inch LCD.
This is the same microSD card that boots to KDE when in the on board slot.
Raspbian 64-bit boots from the 1TB USB hard drive.
I'll next try TW XFCE.
Regards
Sid.
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