04-16-2017, 10:21 PM
(04-16-2017, 09:50 AM)Dagremote Wrote: I'm too new to the product to know what the general consensus is on booting with anything attached.
Well, that suggests that powering the drive at least shouldn't be an issue, since it has it's own power supply. I often had a USB keyboard/mouse receiver plugged in when booting + HDMI when working on a pine64 prior to making it headless or when testing android / linux GUI stuff. Didn't have any boot hiccups that I would blame on them. I've had USB flash drives plugged in, but I can't be certain they were connected during a reboot or cold start. If you could plug in a 3.3v serial UART into the EXP header (pinout in my signature) you'd be able to capture the startup logs, and maybe get some idea as to why it's failing to boot... maybe there is some interaction during the bootup process that breaks things...