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echo: rberrypi
to: RAY CARTER
from: ROB MORLEY
date: 2018-04-03 23:05:00
subject: Re: Boot a RasPi

On 2 Apr 2018 20:33:49 GMT
ray carter  wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:18:10 +0200, Bernd wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to move the root-Dir to an other device. Away from the
> > SD-card. Boot-Dir and Start-Files can rest on SD-Card.
> >
> > I have an other device /dev/sdb and copied all files and directories
> > from the root of the SD-card to the new partition /dev/sdb1.
> >
> > I think that in the file /boot/cmdline.txt I can do the trick.
> >
> > But then I am clueless.
> >
> > What Do I have to configure?
> >
> > What is the way RasPi boots up?
> >
> > Bernd
>
> With a normal linux, you do it in /etc/fstab.

But you also have to pass the location of the root directory as an
argument to the kernel, because it can't mount anything else until it's
mounted the root directory.  IIRC ...

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