Boot or /root on SATA without SPI

[tugabi]

Hello everyone,
I would like to know if there is any possibility for A20-Olinuxino-Lime2 without SPI flash to move the root filesystem to some external SATA device or even boot from SATA.
Thank you.

[LubOlimex]

It should be possible to boot from SATA, using latest Olimage Linux images.

Just run the "olinuxino-sd-to-sata" script.

~#olinuxino-sd-to-sata – allows booting from the SATA disk; transfers the Linux file system from the card to external SATA disk; boot is placed in SPI flash memory.

[tugabi]

Well, I have bought a product without SPI flash. I managed with "olinuxino-sd-to-sata" script to move the root filesystem to the SATA. With the modification of the /boot/uEnv.txt where I added "optargs=root=/dev/sda1" the system boots and everything works fine.
I guess the lack of SPI flash memory from the A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 I bought forces me to keep the SD card in place.

Best regards

[tugabi]

... the system boots and everything works fine ...

For Ubuntu focal it seems to be problems with ca-certificates for: curl, wget, urlopen ...
Use: sudo update-ca-certificates --fresh

[oliverbienert]

Hello,
I recently bought a Pioneer Edition FreedomBox Home Server Kit (A20-OlinuXino-LIME2) from Olimex. Today I assembled the box with a bay-ssd in order to move the root filesystem to the new ssd to circumvent write issues on the sd-card . However, there is no "olinuxino-sd-to-sata" script in my system, at least I seem not be able to find it. Can this be downloaded somewhere else? Or is it not suitable for the freedombox edition?
Best regards

[oliverbienert]

I managed to followed the instructions here:

btrfs replace start -B /dev/mmcblk0p2 /dev/sda1 /
btrfs filesystem resize max /
reboot

So I obviously don't need the above mentioned script. Sorry for the noise.
Best Regards

[LubOlimex]

Thank you for the update, glad you got it solved.

The script you mentioned in the first post was meant for Olimage images, it is not present in FreedomBox.