Perhaps
I am spoiled with the Cubieboards,
I really like the specs of the Odroid HC1, other than its
power draw
(peaks at 4A) and UART serial (got to get an expensive
1.8V unit).
But can I set it up with the partitions on the sata drive
and only the
uboot on the uSD?
I believe the SATA on those is USB-3 attached.
Assuming the SoC has USB3 support etc upstream in U-Boot it
should be fine, there's been a few others on list with them so
hopefully they'll speak up. You might also look at list
archives for information