[How-To] Boot Entirely from SATA

[WarheadsSE]

I'm at work, and currently busy with an Exchange migration.. I was implying that I will, and my convenience.

[Guest]

Thanks all your effort in advance.
(Of course I can live without over clock.) It is a nice to have feature.

Regards,
Robert

[elazar]

Got this working quite nicely on a Pro(B01) using a 2.5 WD Scorpio Blue(250GB) and the USB power mod, running ArmedSlack. Nice work WarheadsSE, much appreciated! Now, how would one go about modifying the bootargs in u-boot.wrapped? I need to add an ro flag in order to keep ArmedSlack's init from complaining.

elazar

[WarheadsSE]

Well, I need to figure that one, minus the serial cable.

Trick at this point: the uboot is stored on the disk.. can we convince fw_setenv to use that?

[elazar]

Via serial I get DMA timeouts and write failures when executing saveenv. Interesting thing is, the drive I am using is 250GB, the stage1 init code shows it as 130GB

The stock fw_(print|set)env will fail(ioctl failure), because the code assumes the device is a NAND, however, I did find a modified one here: http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/how-to-c ... ac-address which seems to work, the problem is finding the right offset to add to fw_env.config.

elazar

[WarheadsSE]

I can help with that.

(plus it should be in my github)

[elazar]

https://github.com/WarheadsSE/uboot-ox820#readme

I am going to assume that the stage1 code, and associated tools(i.e. packager) are PLX NDA protected?

[WarheadsSE]

:/ yup.

[elazar]

Seems like my WD drive has issues, I had no problem updating bootargs via serial on a Seagate ST3250318AS.

elazar

[0123456789]

I am curious if anyone with a serial cable was able to confirm the clock speeds of the other stage1 files?

From robert1968 the stage1.wrapped800 is 750