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  • How to boot from SD but run from US

    From Dave Vandermeer@1:229/275 to Dennis Slagers on Wed Feb 26 17:45:00 2025
    This is completely inappropriate for a Raspberry Pi, which does not

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    boot like a PC using grub.

    oeps.. my bad ..

    So the maybe is: do not try this ..

    Thanks for correcting me.

    Actually I did read somewhere that it is possible. Technically you only need to use the SD card to boot to init, so modify your /etc/fstab to change the location of your root partition to the device of the USB drive. (Theoretically, I haven't booted my Pi's in quite some time.. rapidly losing interest in running a BBS) ..

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  • From Dennis Slagers@2:280/2060 to Dave Vandermeer on Fri Feb 28 14:35:12 2025
    * Replying to a msg in PERSONAL.MAIL (PERSONAL.MAIL)


    Hello Dave!

    26 Feb 25 17:45, you wrote to me:

    of the USB drive. (Theoretically, I haven't booted my Pi's in quite
    some time.. rapidly losing interest in running a BBS) ..

    I've 1 Pi running will never be rebooted unless there is a power outtage. That device is getting through USB my weatherstation data which is than processed by Weewx and has an FTP session to my website to show me the data ;)


    Dennis


    ... Works fine on my machine.
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  • From Grant Weasner@1:138/397 to Dave Vandermeer on Tue Mar 11 17:17:31 2025
    Re: How to boot from SD but run from US
    By: Dave Vandermeer to Dennis Slagers on Wed Feb 26 2025 17:45:00

    Actually I did read somewhere that it is possible. Technically you only need to use the SD card to boot to init, so modify your /etc/fstab to change the location of your root partition to the device of the USB drive. (Theoretically, I haven't booted my Pi's in quite some time.. rapidly losing interest in running a BBS) ..

    if you need to and want to know how to setup a raspi to run off a usb drive, while only booting to sd card, let me know. I can respond with instructions. I have ran my raspi using usb drive since raspi b+.

    newer raspi devices are easier to setup that way, specifically if you have a newer raspi. the imager that is with the rasp os has an option for what drive to write a new image to.

    I've taken my existing os on sd card, put in the usb drive I want to run off of and wrote out everything to the usb drive, modified the boot config files and /etc/fstab, reboot to run off usb drive.

    raspi b can be run this way pretty nice.
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