Clearfogpro : boot from sata (M.2 SSD)

[deb2016]

 

I installed the latest stable (and updated) debian image on clearfogpro from SD card.

 

I then chose "boot from SD, install on SATA ..." as I have a M.2 SSD card which is viewed as /dev/sda device, with the "armbian-install"

utility.

 

However, this one does not offer to boot directly from M2. SSD, which should be possible as there is a DIP switch configuration for it.

 

I tried to burn the iso image on sata with "dd" and then, to "dd" the u-boot.sata on "/dev/sda" (bs=512 seek=1).

 

When switching to sata boot (dip switch), it begins well, the sata device is found, but nothing happens after, the iso image is not loaded.

 

How can I boot directly from M.2 SSD with system installed on it ?

 

 

 

 

[blood]

I have a Clearfog Base but not a Pro - but I utilized the instructions here and have been running Armbian off a SATA m.2 stick for years now without issue. When I attach to the USB console and boot I begin to get console output immediately, first from the firmware, then from uBoot, and finally from the kernel and into userland. Can you share the end of the output that you see? Does it go as far as "Starting Kernel" (or similar, I forget exactly what it says). My first suspicion is that the img (not an ISO per se but I know what you mean) wasn't written to the block device in the manner the board is expecting and so the handoff to the boot loader isn't happening.

 

Do you have a SATA m.2 to USB adapter that you could use to write the image to the media from another system? I'm pretty sure when I set mine up that's what I did rather than writing the image to the SATA drive from within the Clearfog itself (that was booted off SD).