11-03-2018, 08:00 PM
(11-03-2018, 07:53 PM)evilbunny Wrote:(11-03-2018, 06:32 PM)Trash_Can_Man Wrote: On one of my rock64 i have omv and its booting from a sd card, im going to get my hands in a week or two on a usb-sata adapter (the same one you guys sell on the store) and a small-ish ssd, and i would like to start to use it to boot, ive read a lot about how to write the spi for this use but what do i need to do to specify a specific usb drive to boot from? i mean AFAIK if you have more than 1 usb drive and you use /dev/sda the names can rotate and the unit wont boot, where/how do i set it to use the drive UUID?
Second question, what is the easier method to copy exactly my install to the ssd? when i need to copy microsd to microsd or do a full backup i use this, would it work with an ssd target? (i know i would have to resize it with gparted after the copy, but its less of a hassle than install everything again) never mind, i just saw their site, apparently it should work with ssd without problem, first question still stands...
Thanks in advance for any help/tip
Been a while since I did it on mine, but as far as I remember you just flash the drive with etcher like you would a sdcard, but you need to turn on unsafe mode so you can write to the drive, just make sure you don't flash the wrong drive
Yea the flashing or writing part as far as i have seen is simple and i have in mind several different options to do that part but what happens when you have 2 usb drives or more? how do i tell uboot to use the right one? i have no root or anything boot related on the second usb drive but i dont know if uboot checks inside the drives what is available, highly doubt it...