How to boot from eMMC but have root directory on an NVME?
06-26-2020, 05:38 AM
(06-24-2020, 11:56 AM)xmixahlx Wrote: you don't need /boot on the emmc if you are using a uboot with nvme support like mrfixit2001 v2.0.
you can also pass the label to mkfs (depending on your fs it is -L -l -n etc.) eliminating a step.
i am also expecting you can name your new nvme label whatever you want and then change that reference in uboot and fstab configs if you are loading by name.
it may also be a good time to make a swap partition.
i replicated the whole unofficial debian partition install structure from emmc to nvme to prepare for SPI boot sometime in the future. you may want to consider that approach for manjaro, also. if you don't end up doing that it is just a lost few MB on your recently huge new nvme.
ALL uboot updates so far now procuced anger like "noo boot", "PBP dead" and so on.
For now I have lost all interest in experimenting with unsupported uboot-releases and let the PBP boot from the EMMC.
Maybe Manjaro will in the future release an official uboot to boot entirely from the NVMe disk......