03-11-2017, 11:53 AM
(03-11-2017, 09:02 AM)martinayotte Wrote: Let's say that u-boot provide a kernel argument called "root=<something>" and that "something" could be either a partition device such as "/dev/mmcblk0p2" for the partition #2 of an sdcard, or such as "/dev/sda1" for partition #1 of an USB HDD. Only changing that should be enough for you to be able to have your rootfs on external drive, although you will still need the sdcard inserted for u-boot itself been executed.
I appreciate your accommodating me thus far, martinayotte, but I feel I am hijacking this thread to continue any longer on this topic. I'll just search other places, including your various posts, for enlightenment on the current, confusingly-rapidly-changing state of booting the Pine64 using options that Uboot (whatever that even is ;-) ) will give me for my purposes; i.e., to offload device writes from u-SD card so I'm not worried about storage device lifespan for a good long time.
