Booting the raspberry pi 2 from a usb hd

Luca Cappelletti luca.cappelletti at gmail.com
Mon Oct 1 17:11:12 UTC 2018


Il 01/10/18 12:56, Victor ha scritto:
> I'm using a pi 2 card with FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE on the required sd card. It works like a charm but using it as a postgresql server with many write operation on it, to be on the safe side, I would like to move the operating system to an external hard-disk or ssd.
> I've been surfing the net to find if it is possible to boot my pi 2 from an external hard-disk (or SSD) to no avail.
> Could you please give me some hint, directions on this subject?
> Ciao
> Vittorio

try to mirror the SD in the USB, then edit fstab to reflect the change 
at boot of the root
I've never tried it but following a basic logic I would start like this
If you find a solid and working solution, please post it in this 
mailinglist that I would try for sure

ciao
Luca



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