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Re: Migrating from hard drives to SSDs

On 7/14/23 09:34, Anssi Saari wrote:

gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> writes:


One of the things apparently missing in today's support for the arm64
boards such as the bananapi-m5, is the lack of support for the nvme
memory on some of these devices. I have quite a few of them, all
booting and running from 64G micro-sd's.  Yet these all have, soldered
to the board, several gigs of nvme memory, more that enough to contain
a full desktop install with all the toys, but totally unused.


https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-M5 says eMMC, not NVME. Same
page has a link to a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5I6pzWCTrg
which supposedly explains how to use it to install some software. I have
no idea if you can actually boot from eMMC on those boards.

I only have edible bananas here but on my Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+
the eMMC was fully usable and in fact, I have no SD card on that
system. Although the eMMC solution on these boards isn't great because
they're slow. Apparently the Foundation went cheap (or clueless) on it
which is a pity.

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Thanks Anssi. I go for the both option, cheap AND clueless. I am blocked from their forum because I asked about realtime kernels for the 3rd time.
One reply did give me a link to the src, which I was able to build, but their u-boot is custom so I had to invent my own method of install which amazed me because it worked first time out of the gate. I made a tarball out of it that ran to just over 27 megabytes. Two directory's in the tarball, put the u-sd card in a reader, mount it, and copy those 2 directories to the card. thats it, everything else it needs is done in raspi-config. 

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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