On 6/7/19 2:38 PM, Steven A. Falco wrote:
On 6/7/19 2:32 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 7:28 PM Steven A. Falco <stevenfalco(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 6/7/19 2:26 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>> I have a wandboard quad, and I'd like to move the root filesystem to
a sata drive. I have the drive connected and formatted, and I copied all of "/"
to a partition on the sata drive.
>>>
>>> For the wandboard you can actually have the entire OS on SATA. The
>>> only thing that needs to be on a SD card is U-Boot.
>>>
>>> So if you take a new image and DD it out to the sata device, then just
>>> dd out the U-Boot to a mSD card it should just all boot.
>>
>> That is very interesting. So I think you are saying that the initramfs that is
part of the Fedora 30 image already has the necessary drivers. Do I have that right?
>
> Sort of. The pre generated images that we ship have "generic"
> initramfs which have a LOT of drivers so the images will boot on the
> vast majority of Arm devices, once the first kernel update is applied
> it automatically moves to a host specific initramfs so will then be a
> lot smaller, and hence much quicker to boot, but will not be a generic
> initramfs.
Excellent! That is a good design.
I am happy to report that it worked perfectly. My Wandboard is now running entirely from
a SATA drive, with the tiny exception of U-Boot.
Steve