On 07/11/2019 16:06, Areligious Republican wrote:
> On 07/11/2019 14:10, Kees Nuyt wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 13:16:29 +0000, Areligious Republican
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps there is a need for a THUNK processor to
>>> emulate the SD protocol on one side (to replace the
>>> SD in Pi) and to drive a HD on the other.
>>>
>>> Job for an Arduino or a DSPic33?
>>
>> Much too complicated.
>>
>> As Chris Elvidge says in message:
>>    Subject: Re: External disk with the pi 4, anyone
>>    Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 13:10:14 +0000
>>    Message-ID: 
>> , it is much easier to use the SD card just for /boot,
>> and put the rootfs on a harddisk
>>
>> My setup is usually :
>>
> 
>
> The idea is to get away from SD cards altogether.

AFAIK the pi cannot boot *entirely* from hard disk.

It needs a boostrap SD card

>
> What you contributed subsequently was Linux jabber,
> and not relevant to other approaches.
>
Wrong side of the bed?


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