WarHawk_AVG Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 I have tried several times to install the SD card root partition to a USB I have plugged in It fails to boot after it says it has completed I run it headless 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Werner Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Did you leave the microSD in after move? Booting directly from USB is not possible afaik but you can have the boot loader on sd which then boots from USB. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WarHawk_AVG Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 (edited) Yes, absolutely...I know the Orange Pi SBC's don't have the EEPROM capable of flashing to allow boot directly from the USB or EMMC like a RPi does I did move the RPiPC to a screen and it starts loading but then hangs, have to log in with root pw to go into maintenance mode but would not boot from the USB drive that I just copied the root partition to I really like having the boot partition on the SD and run from a USB because they are usually faster, but for some reason it hangs up... I did re-flash the SD and everything is running from a 16GB Sandisk Ultra A1...but I want to copy the root to a very good Sandisk Ultra fit USB 64GB. Then move the /home to a 1TB WD USB -> SATA adapter to put all the docker volumes in there I know USB2 isn't the speediest of interfaces, but it does work...but for some reason the new images from download won't boot properly even after an apt update && apt upgrade then set armbian-install to USB. Not sure if the script in newer issues have problems or what /home/warhawk# lsblk -s NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS sda1 8:1 0 931.5G 0 part └─sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk sdb1 8:17 1 57.6G 0 part └─sdb 8:16 1 57.6G 0 disk mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 14.7G 0 part /var/log.hdd │ / └─mmcblk0 179:0 0 14.8G 0 disk zram0 254:0 0 499.5M 0 disk [SWAP] zram1 254:1 0 50M 0 disk /var/log zram2 254:2 0 0B 0 disk /home/warhawk# mount sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=436596k,nr_inodes=109149,mod e=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmod e=000) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=102300k,mode=755) /dev/mmcblk0p1 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=600) securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relat ime) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k) cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelega te,memory_recursiveprot) pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) bpf on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700) systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=29,pgrp=1,time out=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct) mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) tracefs on /sys/kernel/tracing type tracefs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatim e) configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) none on /run/credentials/systemd-sysusers.service type ramfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,no exec,relatime,mode=700) tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime) /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /var/log.hdd type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=60 0) /dev/zram1 on /var/log type ext4 (rw,relatime,discard) sunrpc on /run/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime) tracefs on /sys/kernel/debug/tracing type tracefs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relati me) tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=102296k,nr_ino des=25574,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000) root@orangepipc:/home/warhawk# ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 18 13:08 236e9e17-4169-4077-a0d9-2463f4b614ff -> ../../mmcblk0p1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 18 13:08 7e6a8eab-cf51-4649-9526-dd8adfeb63e4 -> ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 18 13:08 dfc301cd-0ae2-4cc2-85e6-4b6c9c6de20b -> ../../sdb1 root@orangepipc:/home/warhawk# cat /etc/fstab UUID=236e9e17-4169-4077-a0d9-2463f4b614ff / ext4 defaults,noatime,commit=600,errors=remount-ro 0 1 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid 0 0 In case of emergency...can I do it manually somewhat by following this howto? (not sure how to copy root to the USB...or do I copy all of it to the USB?) https://www.pragmaticlinux.com/2020/08/move-the-raspberry-pi-root-file-system-to-a-usb-drive/ I guess I could do the rsync (thing of the page) of the / to the SD, then ensure the armbianEnv.txt shows the boot partition as the USB at dfc301cd-0ae2-4cc2-85e6-4b6c9c6de20b correct, well and edit /etc/fstab as well Edited February 19 by WarHawk_AVG 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Armin53 Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Hello @all, I'm experiencing the same problem, no boot after copying to the USB drive. I've tested it with two different OrangePiPC's, also with two different USB Harddisks, one is a magnetic harddisc, the other a brandnew SSD. Any help is appreciated.. Thanks Armin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WarHawk_AVG Posted February 26 Author Share Posted February 26 Any luck on this? I did see an update to armbian-firmware come in... I just hate having to re-flash when it borks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WarHawk_AVG Posted February 28 Author Share Posted February 28 dangit...still borked...just attempted again...locked up at boot 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WarHawk_AVG Posted March 1 Author Share Posted March 1 (edited) well crap... https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Recovery/#flashing-boot-loader Quote U-Boot Shell Access¶ If you broke the system you can try to get in this way. You have to get to u-boot command prompt, using either a serial adapter or monitor and usb keyboard. Note: USB support in u-boot is currently not enabled on all H3 boards. After switching power on or rebooting, when u-boot loads up, press some key on the keyboard (or send some key presses via terminal) to abort default boot sequence and get to the command prompt: Is there no way to just copy the /boot partition to the SD card, then the root partition only on the USB? Would make it SOOOO much easier to have a small 256mb /boot partition (that could live forever and practically untouched unless booting on the SD card), then the rest under the linux format... reflashing...again This might help...maybe (would love to be able to move the rootfs to a USB and just boot up from the SD) https://paste.armbian.com/avocuvopid Right now the /dev/sdb1 formatted as BTRFS has the entire "before the hang" rootfs on the drive...I wonder if I could just update the /boot/armbianEnv.txt (from the new working only from the SD card reflash) verbosity=1 bootlogo=false console=both disp_mode=1920x1080p60 overlay_prefix=sun8i-h3 rootdev=UUID=705b28eb-7ba5-481e-ac44-cb93d2cfd612 rootfstype=ext4 usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u to verbosity=1 bootlogo=false console=both disp_mode=1920x1080p60 overlay_prefix=sun8i-h3 rootdev=UUID=b8a31eff-ba94-410f-9568-53171f393e3b rootfstype=btrfs usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u from Command (m for help): Partition type p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free) e extended (container for logical partitions) Select (default p): Partition number (1-4, default 1): First sector (2048-31116287, default 2048): Last sector, +/-sectors or +/-size{K,M,G,T,P} (8192-31116287, default 31116287): NAME FSTYPE SIZE MOUNTPOINT UUID sda 931.5G └─sda1 ext4 931.5G 7e6a8eab-cf51-4649-9526-dd8adfeb63e4 sdb 57.6G └─sdb1 btrfs 57.6G b8a31eff-ba94-410f-9568-53171f393e3b mmcblk0 14.8G └─mmcblk0p1 ext4 1.9G / 705b28eb-7ba5-481e-ac44-cb93d2cfd612 zram1 50M /var/log zram2 0B Once the crash happened. The data is moved(rsync from the install command) and is still there in the locked USB drive...it should be able to just point there...or is that H3 disable from the above post mean it will NEVER work? It worked before on an older release.... I guess worse comes to worse...I would just have to reflash for the bazillionth time... Edited March 1 by WarHawk_AVG 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WarHawk_AVG Posted March 1 Author Share Posted March 1 nope...then fired the daggum card out the back into the closet...uggh Waiting for the 64GB Sandisk Ultra's to come in...arrrgh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WarHawk_AVG Posted March 3 Author Share Posted March 3 Found a spare card...flashed...working like a boss off the SD...was just wishing there was a way to have a boot SD that pointed to a USB/HDD for the OS will u-boot work on a fat32SD card like raspbian? If only there was a 2nd partition... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WarHawk_AVG Posted March 13 Author Share Posted March 13 (edited) I believe I figured out why it's not working The proper format for /etc/fstab would be UUID=${target_partition_uuid} / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1 Rather than /dev/disk/by-uuid/${target_partition_uuid} / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1 Might be a quick fix in the script...and/or have people change that entry...for some reason it hangs on reboot because it cant' seem to get back the /dev/disk deal Also, found that the script was not commenting out the /dev/mmcblk0p2 above the entry it placed Just like in the adafruit script...it's putting the wrong ID in /etc/fstab so upon booting it can't figure out the /dev/disk/by-uuid/ entry rather than just the UUID= Can someone verify?? Ah heck...what can I loose other than a new reflashing huh? Edited March 13 by WarHawk_AVG 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Igor Posted April 1 Share Posted April 1 @WarHawk_AVG Can you try with self build image? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I have tried several times to install the SD card root partition to a USB I have plugged in
It fails to boot after it says it has completed
I run it headless
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