On 01/09/2021 13:26, Sid Boyce wrote:
On 31/08/2021 10:55, Matthias Brugger wrote:
On 31/08/2021 00:30, Sid Boyce wrote:
I only want to be able to boot from a USB drive, just as I do with Ubuntu, a 1TB plugged into a USB 3.0 hub.
I burned a 128GB USB stick -- plugged into the Pi4B, at the graphical boot screen all is OK, I hit enter but it never gets further than the "-" cursor in the top left of the LCD even after many hours.
Ok, so you use a LCD as display, you didn't mention that. Can you check if the system comes up on the serial console/HDMI. Please double-check if you forgot to add any overlay on your USB stick installation.
Regards, Matthias
The reason for trying to boot with both was just something I thought worth a try just to see.
No problems when booting from a microSD card. Regards Sid.
On 30/08/2021 12:23, Matthias Brugger wrote:
On 27/08/2021 02:04, Sid Boyce wrote:
I booted and setup from microSD and followed https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Raspberry_Pi4.
Next I also installed openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-KDE-raspberrypi.aarch64-2021.08.06-Snapshot20210818.raw.xz
to a USB HD.
I'm not quite sure why you are doing this. Do you want to boot from USB or from the uSD card? Why do you plug-in both?
I read the Wiki and ran "rpi-eeprom-update -a -d"
When I reboot it stops at the grub prompt when booted with the microSD in.
grub> ls
(proc) (hd0) (hd0,msdos3) (hd0,msdos2) (hd0,msdos1) (hd1,msdos3) (hd1,msdos2) (hd1,msdos1)
Booting with onlu the USB HD, in a loop looking for the hard drive.
Can you stop U-Boot before booting and type then:
setenv xtrace 1 boot
And provide the information.
Regards, Matthias
No problem when booting with just a Ubuntu USB hard drive with no microSD card in. Ubuntu setup is quite straightforward.
Anyone succeeded with Tumbleweed?
Regards
Sid.
Hi Matthias,
For both the 128GB microSD card and the 128GB USB stick or a 1TB USB 2.0 hard drive.
xzcat/home/lancelot/ftp/AUG21/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-KDE-raspberrypi.aarch64-2021.08.06-Snapshot20210818.raw.xz | dd bs=4M of=/dev/sde iflag=fullblock oflag=direct status=progress; sync
Pi4B ... keyboard, mouse, 7 inch HDMI touch LCD.
The microSD boots no problems. I have a full desktop and was able to do a zypper dup to Snapshot20210829 and reboots always OK.
Removing the microSD and booting from the USB stick, I hit enter at the graphical boot screen and it displays a "-" in the top left of the screen and gets no further.
Did you made sure that you enabled booting from USB in the RPi firmware? If you don't get to U-Boot you should check the first partition of your USB stick to see if you have u-boot.bin, dtb's, config.txt, grub etc in place.
Regards, Matthias
The process to boot from USB is different on Ubuntu but I am able to boot and run from a 1TB Toshiba USB HD on a USB 3.0 hub. I also run Ubuntu on a Pi3B from a USB stick.
There seems to be only a problem with hard drives and USB sticks on Tumbleweed.
I have a colleague who wants to run Tumbleweed on a Pi4B as his main desktop so it would be helpful if he could boot and run from a USB hard drive.
I am downloading Snapshot20210829 to try with the USB stick.
Regards
Sid.