Hi guys,I just have a quick question. I’ve got lakka running on a cubietruck with an old 4 gig SD card (class 4…) and an old 128 gig sata HDD. I was wondering if there was a way to install lakka directly to the HDD and maybe have some minimal bootloader on the SD. As far as i know, there has to be a SD inserted, otherwise it will try to boot from the internal 8 gig flash. Maybe the SD would profit from that in the sense of longevity. And with lakka on the HDD I could finally use the online updater properly :DAppreciating any thoughts here :)cheers
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maybe a dev could help me out here. i’ve moved all roms to a ssd (ntfs).
now i wanted to have the lakka system files on it. in the uEnv.ct uboot seems to mount 2 partitions. the first for the boot procedure, the second as lakka’s system.
script=cubietruck.bin
kernel=KERNEL
extraargs='console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 boot=/dev/mmcblk0p1 [I][U][B]disk=/dev/mmcblk0p2[/B][/U][/I] rootwait quiet ssh loglevel=2 hdmi.audio=EDID:0 disp.screen0_output_mode=EDID:1280x1024p60 consoleblank=0'
boot_mmc=fatload mmc 0 0x43000000 ${script}; fatload mmc 0 0x48000000 ${kernel}; bootm 0x48000000
I’ve tried to copy them to the partition on the ssd and set the disk option to something like /dev/sda1. with this, i only got a boot loop. only the flower was visible, but nothing further happened. then somewhere i’ve read that u-boot does not boot from ntfs. so i’ve created a second partition on the ssd (fat32) and copied the contents of the second partition of the SD card to the ssd. at this point i kept the setting disk=/dev/sda1. upon boot, lakka threw some boot errors at me and booted into some form of retroarch interface (i know that interface from retropie, when you try to configure retroarch directly).
then i’ve tried disk=/dev/sda2
script=cubietruck.bin
kernel=KERNEL
extraargs='console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 boot=/dev/mmcblk0p1 [U][I][B]disk=/dev/sda2[/B][/I][/U] rootwait quiet ssh loglevel=2 hdmi.audio=EDID:0 disp.screen0_output_mode=EDID:1280x1024p60 consoleblank=0'
boot_mmc=fatload mmc 0 0x43000000 ${script}; fatload mmc 0 0x48000000 ${kernel}; bootm 0x48000000
now lakka booted into the normal interface, but aparently it reset all configs. is this normal?
what do you think? is this a way to make lakka work from ssd permanently? i know, fat32 on a ssd is not ideal, but it would only be used for boot and some savegames…
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anyone?