On Mi, 27 ian 21, 20:03:22, Rick Thomas wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian Buster [1] on my Cubox-i4P with an eSATA > drive. Everything seems to be fine, but when it comes time to reboot, > it boots into the installer again, rather than the installed system. > > Here's what I did, and what I observed:
[...] > What I hoped would happen with the eSATA drive was that the installer > would write the boot firmware (u-boot, etc) to the SDcard, and > configure it to get /boot, root, /home, swap off the eSATA. > > What I suspect has happened is that the boot firmware (u-boot, etc) > was written to the eSATA drive and so it can't be found by the > power-up routine without some reconfiguration to tell it to look at > the eSATA, but that isn't happening. > > Anybody know what I can do to either: > 1) Tell the power-up routines to look at the eSATA? > or If at all possible this is highly device specific, so you should check the support channels (forums, etc.) for Cubox-i4P. > 2) Write the boot firmware to the SD card and configure it to get the > rest of the system from the eSATA? [...] > PS: In a previous attempt, I used a 64GB SDcard without the eSATA > disk -- putting everything onto the SDcard. That worked fine (It put > the boot stuff on the SDcard) but it's horribly slow due to the very > low speed of data transfer to and from the SDcard. Something like this could work: 1. Install Debian to an SD-card (maybe a minimal install if the card is small), make sure to have a separate /boot. 2. Partition your eSATA drive as you see fit and copy the contents of the / partition (and others if any) to the drive. This is best done on another computer. 3. Find where/how the root= parameter is passed to the kernel and adjust it to point to the / partition on the eSATA drive instead. 4. Adjust /etc/fstab on the eSATA drive to have the /boot partition mounted to /boot. This is necessary to make kernel updates work. If possible configure flash-kernel to keep your boot= parameter, otherwise you'll have to do that manually at each kernel upgrade. If the boot process is simple enough it might be possible to switch to u-boot-menu instead of flash-kernel. It's much simpler and easier to configure, and also provides a text boot menu. Hope this helps, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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