Hi guru and all,
is it possible to boot an linux image directly from SATA without nand and sd/mmc?
Thanks in advance
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Quote from: virgin on March 13, 2015, 01:16:00 PM
Hi guru and all,
is it possible to boot an linux image directly from SATA without nand and sd/mmc?
Thanks in advance
A.
The boot ROM in the A10 or A20 can read the next stage of the boot code from an SD card, on-board NAND, SPI-connected memory or USB. There is no code capable of reading data from SATA, so the answer to you question is no.
To complete , the code read on the SD/NAND is used to set the system (driver to the sata for instance).
If you want to boot from your sata, you must add code in the SD/NAND to initialize the sata hd and then jump to the hd.
It might be not very easy at first sight.
Hi,
thanks for replies.
Is any other version of olimex board permit me to boot from sata directly?
Thanks in advance
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