On 2021-07-07, Rick Thomas wrote: > I recently tried installing the two-part image for MX6_Cubox-i from > [1] on my Cubox-i4Pro. I'm pretty sure while debugging #982270 (ethernet on imx6 systems), I managed to get a successfull install to eSATA, though not *positive* (maybe I just got as far as testing ethernet). > It worked fine when I installed to an SD card -- I used a 32 GB card > for the installer and installed to that same card. But that's kinda > limited. The box has USB and eSATA ports that I'd like to be able to > use, if only because they should be faster than the SD card. Yeah, I'm running bullseye on a cubox-i4pro from eSATA. How are you powering your eSATA? I use a eSATA+USB-power adapter to plug in the SSD, and I'm not sure if it is still required, but I have a boot.scr on a bootable partiton on microSD which basically does: sleep 1 usb start sleep 3 which powers up the USB and then the eSATA has power via the USB, and allows u-boot to load the kernel+initrd+dtb directly off of a /boot partition on the eSATA SSD. You can find this type of cable: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=eSATA+Data+%2B+USB+Powered+Cable&ia=web This looks pretty much just like the one I have: https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1.fxzNVXXXXc1XFXXq6xXFXXX5/2-5-Inch-Hard-Disk-Drive-SATA-22-Pin-to-eSATA-Data-USB-Powered-Cable-NEW.jpg I don't have a link for the exact one I have. For a more power-hungry disk, you might need an externally powered eSATA cable adapter instead... almost no experience with that. > Ideally, the configuration I would like to have is system (root and > /home) reside on a 32GB USB flash stick, if necessary with /boot on an > SD card, but ideally with /boot on the USB stick as well. That sounds less ideal than eSATA, but whatever floats your boat. :) > I tried doing an "expert" install with manual disk partitioning -- > putting /boot on the SD card and root and /home on the USB stick -- > but when it rebooted it just hung, even after power-cycling. What do you mean by "hung"? U-boot never displays on the serial console? U-boot hangs at some point? U-boot loads the kernel+initrd+dtb and it's stuck at "Starting kernel..."? The kernel loads and prints messages but the initramfs never finds the rootfs? A boot log would be very useful here. :) > Same thing happened when I did a "guided" partitioning install with > all partitions (/boot, root, and /home) on the USB stick. I haven't worked with USB rootfs much on the cubox-i precisely because eSATA is a better interface, but depending on where exactly it hung, maybe you're missing modules in the initramfs... live well, vagrant
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