03-10-2017, 01:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-10-2017, 04:41 PM by kenneth558.)
(02-01-2017, 10:26 AM)martinayotte Wrote: That is one of the reason why I hate those BSP images where their U-Boot are obsolete and unable to read ext4 partitions and requires those stupid small vfat partition to load kernel.
I'm much prefer single ext4 rootfs such as Armbian kernel 4.10.x with Apriztel's U-Boot, even been able to boot directly from USB drive.
I'm doing my research so as to boot from USB drive, but have run into so many outdated posts that I am completely confused what the current state of U-boot and other firmware parts are...in case you would care to lend some friendly guidance about doing that. I've run longsleep's uboot and kernel update script lines as below and received "You are already on the latest...":
Code:
bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/longsleep/build-pine64-image/master/simpleimage/platform-scripts/pine64_update_uboot.sh)
bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/longsleep/build-pine64-image/master/simpleimage/platform-scripts/pine64_update_kernel.sh)Quote:It requires a small SPI-NOR flash connected to the header and having u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin flashed into it.[OBSOLETE: But I am not familiar with how a "SPI-NOR flash" is flashed and soldered in.]
(I have a $2 USB 2 to SATA cable being shipped to me & 64GB SSD ready to install, but I also have 32 GB flash drives - USB 3.x - galore that should do the USB boot-drive job in the meantime, right? I moved to DietPi in the hopes of good youtube videos, but did have longsleep's image working at one time also. My system is for automation around the house. I've avoided using OpenHAB image until I understand it deeper, like can I just keep DietPi and do manual OpenHAB install; what will happen to my current automation programming; etc.)
