this is what i was talking about, i don't like booting an sbc from stick even if you can hit disk
can net run on sbc? On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 11:51 AM Thomas D. Dean <tomd...@wavecable.com> wrote: > On 4/20/24 15:29, Michael Cheponis wrote: > > I run an RPi 4B/8G with external USB SSD drive; I do this because my > uSD cards were getting worn out after about a year of use; I've had no > such problems with my Samsung 870 EVO nor Samsung SSD T7. > > > > I use the built-in GigE adaptor on the RPi 4B, because it's > convenient as I have wired ethernet most places. So I can't help with > WiFi. > > > > I have been running an RPi 3 from a Lexar 64B Thumb Drive since June > 2019 - no problem there, either. > > I use SanDisk Extreme Pro 128GiB flash drives in the RPi 4b USB 3 port, > sometimes with a 6" USB 3 cable. > > I can always boot RPi OS on these drives. I have never been able to boot > NetBSD 10. > > I downloaded the arm64.img, and RPi4_UEFI_Firmware_v1.35.zip. On a Linux > desktop: > dd if=arm64.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M > and, then I replace the corresponding files from > RPi4_UEFI_Firmware_v1.35.zip. > mount /de3v/sda1 /mnt > cd /mnt > unzip ~/NetBSD/RPi4_UEFI_Firmware_v1.35.zip > > When I attempt to boot, I see the color flash, then a cursor at the top > left of the screen, then the screen goes blank. > > he flash drive shows lots of accesses during this process and then shows > access flashes in groups of 3 or 4. I think this indicates an unreadable > file, I think. > > When I do the the same actions with an SD card, NetBSD boots. > > What do you do? > > Tom Dean > -- renegade6969...@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556020800880 https://twitter.com/Rose29283220654
