Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 10:43:53 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Luca Cappelletti <luca.cappelletti@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting the raspberry pi 2 from a usb hd Message-ID: <9EB03ECE-5E5A-4DE3-9DAA-BFE1F64785B3@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3d7bb861-3604-3b4f-a6df-a734532e6ca7@gmail.com> References: <A147F11E-3B87-4CB9-98AB-BC5CFB46C712@gmail.com> <3d7bb861-3604-3b4f-a6df-a734532e6ca7@gmail.com>
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On 2018-Oct-1, at 10:11 AM, Luca Cappelletti <luca.cappelletti at = gmail.com> wrote: > Il 01/10/18 12:56, Victor ha scritto: >> I'm using a pi 2 card with FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE on the required sd = card. It works like a charm but using it as a postgresql server with = many write operation on it, to be on the safe side, I would like to move = the operating system to an external hard-disk or ssd. >> I've been surfing the net to find if it is possible to boot my pi 2 = from an external hard-disk (or SSD) to no avail. >> Could you please give me some hint, directions on this subject? >> Ciao >> Vittorio >=20 > try to mirror the SD in the USB, then edit fstab to reflect the change = at boot of the root After the mirroring there are two /etc/fstab files, one in each place. The one on the microsd card media needs to be changed as it will be found and used to mount what it lists for / . After that the /etc/fstab on what is mounted on / will be used as I understand. (But I normally keep the two files tracking and so would not see the distinction.) > I've never tried it but following a basic logic I would start like = this > If you find a solid and working solution, please post it in this = mailinglist that I would try for sure =3D=3D=3D Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)
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